The plus sign spoke to everything on the duo’s mood board, from an apothecary concept (echoing the crosses that mark ...

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The plus sign (+) means "ADD" in programming and on calculator keyboards. For example, 10 + 7 means 10 added to 7. It is also used as a concatenation symbol for text fields. For example, city + ", " + ...