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    Regards strings, non-technical people might be mildly surprised about what a string is in terms of stored data, but the real curveball is about how computers process strings very differently from the human brain. For example, a British postcode like AB1 2CD, most non-technical people would be very surprised that this is usually processed by a computer as a different postcode than AB1 2CD. Commented Aug 5, 2024 at 12:14
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    @Steve You're right, I was just quickly grabbing some differences that occurred to me, but really Strings are so weird, they almost deserve one of those "Falsehoods that programmers believe about X" posts. Commented Aug 5, 2024 at 12:26