Don't understand this can anyone help

Question

What is the output of this code?
var a = true;
var b = "01";

alert(Number(a == b));

i know the results is 1 but why is that ?!

Answer 1

0 is regarded as false, and 1 is true.
(a == b) is a condition that returns true or false. Since a = true = 1, and b = "01" = "1", a == b is true.
Convert true to a number, and you get 1.

Answer 2

because in Javascript true has the numeric value of 1.
in the comparison (a == b) is like you are comparing 1 and '01'.
because you use two equals that means compare them without taking in consideration their type
the result is true.

Answer 3

the above answers are perfect, but I'll add in case you didn't know, I believe if you were to use the strict equality (===), it would evaluate as false. JS isn't my favorite, but if I'm not mistaken it works like this...
1 == "1"
true
1 === "1"
false ...the strict equality is taking into account that one of them is a string and the other is an integer.

Answer 4

You got some great responses there bud