What happens to a variable when you call a function twice without resetting it?
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What happens to a variable when you call a function twice without resetting it?
Imagine you're counting apples in a basket. You start with 5 apples and add 3 more apples after a while. How many apples do you have now?
If you start with 5 apples and add 3 more, you end up with 8 apples. In programming, if a variable 'x' is initialized to 5 and then you add 3 to it without resetting 'x', it will show the new total of 8.
Example
x = 5; x = x + 3; x now equals 8.
Remember this
A variable retains its updated value after subsequent operations unless explicitly reset.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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