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###Before you go...
Here are some basic pieces of information that will be helpful in this documentation.
#####Strings
- A string is a data type, and is used to represent text rather than numbers.
- It is made up of a set of characters that can also contain spaces and numbers.
- For example, the word "Cheeseburger", and the phrase "I ate 6 cheeseburgers" are both strings. Even "54321" could be considered as a string, if specified correctly.
- Typically, programmers must enclose strings in quotation marks, so the data is recognised as a string rather than a number or a variable.
#####Integers
- An integer is a whole number (Not a fraction, or decimal).
- Therefore, numbers like 1, 40, -78, 0, and 48274 are all integers.
- Numbers like 4.5 and -6.25 are not integers, as they cannot have a decimal place, or be fraction.
#####Floating Point
- As the name implies, these are numbers with a floating decimal point (The decimal place 'floats' between the digits).
- For example, 4.7, 0.0001, and -8765.0 are all floating point numbers
- Numbers without a decimal place are integers