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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In this context, they’re talking about the data type used in programming used to store pieces of text. For instance, in most programming languages,
“hello, world”
would be treated as representing an object containing the text “hello, world”. Some programming languages let you use the “+” symbol to represent string concatenation (attaching) as well as addition.
“meat” + “gun” == “meatgun”
So in the twitter example, it wouldn’t be adding the numbers 1 and 2 to get 3, but rather sticking the strings “1” and “2” together to get “12”
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