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Program 4: Say another Answer

Did the computer say "2.5"?

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The four basic mathematical operations: addition (+), subtraction
(-), division (/), and multiplication(*) work with numbers to
perform calculations. A numeric value is required on both sides of
these operators. You may also use parenthesis to group
operations together.

Examples include: 1 + 1, 5 * 7, 3.14 * 6 + 2, (1 + 2) * 3 and 5 -
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Concatenation:

Concatenation is the operation that joins two strings together to make a
longer string. If the strings “abcd” and “xyz” and concatenated together the
string “abcdxyz” would be the result. This operation is called concatenation,
or "cat" for short.

BASIC-256 has three different operators that will concatenate strings, but
they perform differently when the expressions are numbers. The ; operator
will convert expressions to strings and always concatenate, the + operator
will numerically add two numbers but concatenate if either are strings, and
the & operator will perform a 'bit-wise and' if both are numbers but will
otherwise concatenate.

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