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Mikael OlssonJava Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3441-9_4

4. Operators

Mikael Olsson1 
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Hammarland, Länsi-Suomi, Finland
 

Operators are special symbols used to operate on values. They can be grouped into five types: arithmetic, assignment, comparison, logical, and bitwise operators.

Arithmetic operators

There are four basic arithmetic operators, as well as the modulus operator (%), which is used to obtain the division remainder:

float x = 3+2; // 5 // addition
      x = 3-2; // 1 // subtraction
      x = 3*2; // 6 // multiplication
      x = 3/2; // 1 // division
      x = 3%2; // 1 // modulus (division remainder)

Note that the division sign gives an incorrect result. That’s because it operates on two ...

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