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I have a questions where I need to overload the + operator for vectors so that I can add two vectors together. The question I have is on how and where to write the code.

what is the definition of the + operator for STL vectors?
template<typename T, typename Allocator>
vector<T, Allocator> &operator+ (const vector<T, Allocator> &a, const vector<T, Allocator> &b)


and do I just code this outside of main?

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what is the definition of the + operator for STL vectors?
template<typename T, typename Allocator>
vector<T, Allocator> &operator+ (const vector<T, Allocator> &a, const vector<T, Allocator> &b)
and do I just code this outside of main?

yes, you define it as a global. however, there is a logical error in your declaration; the result of operator+ is a temporary variable; you should return the temporary by value, not reference.
what does it mean to add two vectors? concatenate or add element by element?

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