'cat'dogalphabetic ordering true 'cat'catuppercase before lowercase true 'dog'cattrue all uppercase before lowercase booleans typically arise from comparisons we can compare more than numbers (integers or floating pointwe can also compare strings text comparisons are based around the ordering of characters in the unicode character set note that all the uppercase letters in the latin alphabet precede all the lowercase letters so any text that starts with an uppercase letter counts as "less thanany text that starts with lowercase letter