CHAPTER 4Operators
Java provides a rich operator environment. Most of its operators can be divided into the following four groups: arithmetic, bitwise, relational, and logical. Java also defines some additional operators that handle certain special situations. This chapter describes all of Java’s operators except for the type comparison operator instanceof, which is examined in Chapter 13.
Arithmetic Operators
Arithmetic operators are used in mathematical expressions in the same way that they are used in algebra. The following table lists the arithmetic operators:
The operands of the arithmetic operators must be of a numeric type. You cannot use ...
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