what will be the ans

[shirsa ray chaudhuri]

pulic class Integers{
public static void main(String[] args){
System.out.println(0*10+10+010);
}
}
what will be the ans, i think 20, is it right.

[Ulf Dittmer]

This is rather easy to test by compiling and running it, no?

[shirsa ray chaudhuri]

i have no java compiler so please give me the answer...

[Peter Chase]

We don't do your homework for you here, but I will give you a hint: read this.

[Campbell Ritchie]

The answer will of course be 22.

I'll leave it to you to work out how to get it to print 22!

[f. nikita thomas]

i got 18 ... leading zero interpreted as numeric literal ... 010 is eight in octal.
[ April 10, 2008: Message edited by: f. nikita thomas ]

[Campbell Ritchie]

Let him work out the answer for himself . . .

And it really did print out 22 when I tried it.

[Raghavan Muthu]

I also get it as "18" only, which seems to be obvious here!

[Campbell Ritchie]

And I got 22.

Work it out

[Raghavan Muthu]

Campbell, what are we missing out here? It looks like a puzzle wherein you are asked to just get a different answer by just changing one line or operator etc? -- so as to get 22!

here, it is very simple -- it has 3 operands [0*10+10+010] in which the the result of multiplication yields 0 and the rest two gives you 10 and 8 (010 in octal yielding 8 in decimal). The sum is 18!

How and why you get a different answer?

[Henry Wong]

How and why you get a different answer?

He didn't get a different answer. The answers are the same. Keep in mind that he didn't say what the exact output was, just what the result value was.

Now admittingly, Campbell, when something has to be explained, it isn't funny....

Henry

[Raghavan Muthu]

That's correct Henry. But Campbell's posts were not saying anything about the formatting of output leaving room to think on other sides/aspects of it.

As it is you run the program, it gives 18 only. It is what my concern here! That's what i asked what is being missed out, if at all?

[fred rosenberger]

BIG hint: what is 2*8 + 2*1?

[Raghavan Muthu]

When you run as it is with the default priority of operators, it is 18. But how it helps in the OP's question.?

[Campbell Ritchie]

I did run it with default priority. Henry and Fred know what I did, but I shall keep quiet for a little.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Oh, all right then. I printed it with the %o tag in printf.

[Raghavan Muthu]

Campbell that is fine

But we were talking about running the program without modifying and of course as it was.

But isn't it cheating?

[Campbell Ritchie]

All right, it was cheating. Sorry.

But, has Shirsa Ray Chaudhuri worked out why it is 18 or 22 and not 20?

There were three terms to the arithmetic:

0 * 10, which comes to 0.

10, which is one more than nine and one less than eleven.

and 010 which is one more than seven and one less than nine.

0 + 10 + 8 is 18.

Beginners are reminded that any integer literal beginning with 0 is in octal, so 010 is 10 in octal or 8 in decimal.
Any integer literal beginning with 0x is in hexadecimal, so 0x10 is 16 in decimal.

When I had the 18 decimal, the %o tag made it print in octal, so I got the printout of 22.

[shirsa ray chaudhuri]

this all are wrong cause opptions are 1)28,2)30,3)34,4)36,5)101010

[Ulf Dittmer]

Originally posted by shirsa ray chaudhuri:
opptions are

If this is a question from book or mock exam, then please QuoteYourSources.

[Rob Spoor]

The options are wrong, since the answer really is 18.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Originally posted by shirsa ray chaudhuri:
this all are wrong

No, the results people have posted, with or without cheating, are all correct. You can get 12 as an output too, by using the %x tag to print in hexadecimal. If the answers are to be picked from a multiple choice list of 28 30 34 36 and 101010, you must have made a mistake when you copied the original question.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Have you mistaken 0x10 for 0 multiplied by 10 (0*10)? If you were supposed to write 0x10, that would give one of the answers you listed. And as you have been asked, please post where you got the question from.

[f. nikita thomas]

good eye Campbell

[Raghavan Muthu]

Originally posted by Campbell Ritchie:


When I had the 18 decimal, the %o tag made it print in octal, so I got the printout of 22.

Campbell, not intended to beat around the bush! My intention and puzzling all was about the "%o" tag which you used by yourself! and that caused the confusion!

[Raghavan Muthu]

Originally posted by Campbell Ritchie:
No, the results people have posted, with or without cheating, are all correct. You can get 12 as an output too, by using the %x tag to print in hexadecimal. If the answers are to be picked from a multiple choice list of 28 30 34 36 and 101010, you must have made a mistake when you copied the original question.

That's true. As Ulf suggested, you should have better Quoted your source, which would have avoided the confusions as Campbell pointed out -- misinterpreting the 0X as * (multiplication).

[Campbell Ritchie]

. . . and if I'm right, I can still get the result to print as 22!

Raghavan, sorry for confusing people, but I challenge you to work out how to get the result of 22 on screen.

[Raghavan Muthu]

Campbell, that's perfectly agreed. If you see my very first post i told that it looked like a puzzle wherein you are expected to bring a change in the output by just altering a single value or operator etc., -- Here it was achieved by changing the output formatter!

That's okay but people should get clarified rather than getting confused -- Right?
[ April 11, 2008: Message edited by: Raghavan Muthu ]

[shirsa ray chaudhuri]

the answer is 36

[Campbell Ritchie]

Originally posted by shirsa ray chaudhuri:
the answer is 36

Really? That doesn't look right to me. Please quote the question exactly as written, and tell us where you got it from.