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Variants of assignment operator

Earlier in the chapter, you learned about the assignment operator, =. Now, we will see some more variants of the assignment operator, often used in combination with arithmetic operators:

Operator	Description
=	x=y , y is assigned to x
+=	x+=y is equivalent to x=x+y
-=	x-=y is equivalent to x=x-y
*=	x*=y is equivalent to x=x*y
/=	x/=y is equivalent to x=x/y
**=	x**=y is equivalent to x=x**y

Here, we will look at a few examples of the variants of the assignment operator: