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@Federation_Bot · last year

A lot of people don’t know this one weird trick — much like JavaScript, C also lets you perform arithmetic with mixed types:

Screenshot of a terminal showing a simple C program and its output.
The code prints the result of the expression `"-0.5" + 1`
The displayed output is 0.5 — Screenshot of a terminal showing a simple C program and its output. The code prints the result of the expression `"-0.5" + 1` The displayed output is 0.5

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@luna@pony.social · last year

You can do this for exponents, too!

Screenshot of a terminal showing a simple C program and its output.
The code prints the result of the expression `50 ** "2"`
The displayed output is 2500 — Screenshot of a terminal showing a simple C program and its output. The code prints the result of the expression `50 ** "2"` The displayed output is 2500