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title: Not equal
slug: WebAssembly/Reference/Numeric/Not_equal

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The ne instructions, short for not equal, check if two numbers are not equal. If the numbers are not equal 1 will be pushed on to the stack, otherwise 0 will be pushed on to the stack.

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Syntax

;; load 2 numbers on to the stack
local.get $num
i32.const 2

;; check if $num is not equal to '2'
i32.ne

;; if $num is not equal to `2`, `1` will be pushed on to the stack,
;; otherwise `0` will be pushed on to the stack.

Instruction	Binary opcode
i32.ne	0x47
i64.ne	0x52
f32.ne	0x5c
f64.ne	0x62