Hi All 
Could anybody tell me why when adding two string numbers an output is actually given. What is happening under the hood? For example:
x = input( )
y = input( )
print( x + y )
I inputted 2 for x and 4 for y and the interpreter outputted 24.
Thanks,
Tom
What you are doing is concatenating two string objects. The fact that the objects happen to represent two numbers, is not relevant.
Thank you. 
For others reading this post, a little more information:
print( “3” * 5 )
will output 33333
This is because “3” *5 is 5 times “3”, which is “33333”.
You are using strings, imagine like letters and words instead of math. You want to do 3*5 not “3”*5. So use int,(x) and int(y) or floats to process your input.