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What is 12+12?

> The answer is 24! See the ASCII values of '1' is 49, '2' is 50, and '+' is 43. Adding all that together we get 3. Now since we are doing this on a computer with a 8-bit infrastructure we multiply by 3 and so the answer is 24.

Cool! I didn't understand any of that but it was correct and you sound smart. I will put this thing in charge of critical parts of my business.





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