Why Types?

        eels  <=>  1.87292264408661e+31  <=>  1,936,483,685

We'd like to prevent this error from occurring.

Idea:

• Variables have types (integer, character, float, etc.)

• Operations have types

• Compiler / assembler can check that types match

• Probably first appeared in COBOL

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