Why BASIC had numbered lines?

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Published on 2010-03-12T20:02:12Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 20:07 UTC
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I'm curious about why early versions of the BASIC programming language had line numbering like in:

42 PRINT "Hello world!"

The text editors back then had no line numbering?

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