Chapter 3, “Operators and Assignments”

If you want to make sure that the calculation is performed before returning a value, always use a prefix operator.

When binary operations are applied to numeric arguments (integer and floating-point), numeric promotion is performed before the operation takes place.

When one operand in a + operation is a String, then the other operand is converted to a String.

The only runtime exception that occurs during arithmetic operations is the ArithmeticException. This exception is never thrown in floating-point operations and only occurs in integer operations when dividing by 0 or taking the remainder of a number by 0.

The >> operator causes the bits of the left operand to be shifted to the right, based on the value ...

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