We've seen that variables can point to text, which we call strings. As it turns out, though, variables can store so much more. Numbers, for example.

Excellent work! The main difference is that strings are declared with quotation marks, whereas numbers can be written just as they are.

Psst: in Ruby, everything is an object: strings, numbers, variables ... we'll be learning a few more objects as we go!

Hmm, not quite. That looks a lot like a string! We want to store a number in my_number.