There is a recent tweet in which a lady said 1+2=12.
Obviously that is wrong but everyone keeps saying “it’s wrong unless we are talking about strings”
What are strings?
Edit: thank you all for explaining:) have a cookie 🍪 and a wonderful day
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They’re speaking of strings in the computer science sense.
A string is any set of characters. Concatenating two strings — smushing together the two sets of characters — is frequently done in computer programs by using the “+” sign.
So if you have one string that is the character “A” and another that is the character “B” then when you concatenate them (smush them together) you get a single string of “AB.”
A + B = AB
Likewise if you had a string that was “E” and a string that was “LI5” when you concatenate them you get a single string of “ELI5.”
E + LI5 = ELI5
Likewise, if you have a string that consists of the character “1” and a string that consists of the character “2” then when you concatenate them you get “12.”
1 + 2 = 12
Basically it’s treating the equation as *characters* (“strings”) instead of *numbers*.
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