[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> question is, "Can you think of a property that addition and
> multiplication have that string concatenation and repetition do not?"
>
> I thought it was the commutative property but ""*3 is
> equivalent to 3*"". Any ideas?
Um, string concatenation is not commutative.
On 25 May 2005 17:23:45 -0700,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm reading "How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with
> Python" and there's a question regarding string operations. The
> question is, "Can you think of a property that addition and
> multiplication have that string concatenati
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Can you think of a property that addition and
> multiplication have that string concatenation and repetition do not?"
Existence of inverses?
E.g. the additive inverse of 3 is -3, but there are
no "concatenative inverses" of strings.
(BTW, I would consider this more ab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I'm reading "How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with
> Python" and there's a question regarding string operations. The
> question is, "Can you think of a property that addition and
> multiplication have that string concatenation and repetiti
Greetings.
I'm reading "How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with
Python" and there's a question regarding string operations. The
question is, "Can you think of a property that addition and
multiplication have that string concatenation and repetition do not?"
I thought it was the comm
