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My code prints a weird number instead of 42. What’s wrong?
Look at what you’re passing to cout. You’re printing ptr itself, that’s the address where x lives. How would you get the value at that address?
Dereference it? So *ptr?
Exactly. *ptr follows the pointer to the value.
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auto sum = std::accumulate(v.begin(), v.end(), 0);

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int* ptr = &x;

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hello.cpp
#include <iostream>

int main() {
    std::string name = "world";
    int count = 3;

    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
        std::cout << "Hello, "
                  << name
                  << "!" << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

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