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<font color="black">The <tt>+</tt> operator works with strings, but it
is not addition in the mathematical sense. Instead it performs
<b>concatenation</b>, which means joining the strings by
linking them end-to-end. For example:</font><br />
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&gt;&gt;&gt; first 