0040. What is the difference between a character and a numeric value?

A character is a SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION. It doesn’t really exist, other than how we have been conditioned to interpret it. A ‘C’, for example, is the letter ‘CEE’, as in sinCere, in English. To Russian speaking people, it is the letter ‘C’, as in CCCP (SSSR – A ‘P’ in the Cyrillic Alphabet is the letter ‘R’) is the letter ‘S’. It doesn’t make sense to add letters together:

‘To Be’ + ‘Or Not to be’ = ‘That is the Question’

NO, I don’t think so.

A numeric value, however, is something that we CAN perform mathimatical operatrions on.

51 + 98 = 149

That will work.

It does mean, however, that we need to srore the two data types in a different fashion.