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Fix poor formulation pointed out in #29359
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doc/src/manual/conversion-and-promotion.md

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Some languages consider parsing strings as numbers or formatting numbers as strings to be conversions
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(many dynamic languages will even perform conversion for you automatically), however Julia does
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not: even though some strings can be parsed as numbers, most strings are not valid representations
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(many dynamic languages will even perform conversion for you automatically). This is not the case in Julia.
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Even though some strings can be parsed as numbers, most strings are not valid representations
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of numbers, and only a very limited subset of them are. Therefore in Julia the dedicated [`parse`](@ref)
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function must be used to perform this operation, making it more explicit.
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