(November 19, 2012 at 3:13 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: It's like if someone came up to you and started saying "1+1 = 11. This is very true; prove to me it isn't." What would your reaction be?
Actually, in some programming languages, if you represent each "1" as a string, the sum of the two strings will concatenate them, giving the result: "11". But then the numerical content of the symbol '1' is completely absent. It's just as "A" + "A" = "AA".