doing an operation on two numbers will give you a different output type depending on what the types of the operands are.
- an "operation" is something like "addition" (
+) or division (/). - an "operand" is one of the things you're doing the operation on.
for example, in 3 - 2, 3 is the first operand, 2 is the second operand, and subtraction (-) is the operation.
For our case, we're working with 2 types: