93928425 about asserts

Something strange happened where while working in the  93928425_about_asserts branch, and committing changes, after pushing my changes did not show up in github....   so I switched to master branch, merged changes, then checked out  93928425_about_asserts branch again , merged again, and pushed . This time it went through.  Not sure what I did wrong the first time. 

I also forgot to commit through every single step of fixing the tests , but I will do that correctly the next time with the next tests. 

At any rate: one quick question:  is  assert_equal  the same as triple equals ?