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C. MilanesiBeginning Rusthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7208-4_2

2. Doing Arithmetic and Writing More Code

Carlo Milanesi1  
(1)
Bergamo, Italy
 
In this chapter, you will learn:
  • How to compute an arithmetic operation between integer numbers or between floating-point numbers

  • How to write a program containing several statements

  • How to print strings in several lines

Adding Integer Numbers

Let’s see how to compute the sum of two integer numbers, for example, 80 and 34.

Put the following line as the only contents within the braces of the main function:
print!("The sum is {}", 80 + 34);

The execution will print: The sum is 114.

The second argument of the print macro is ...

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