Contrary to the previous example, the double value of 10.50 is assigned to an integer. Without an explicit operator, a portion of data would be lost since it's larger than what an integer can hold. So ...

Type casting is the process of converting a variable from one data type to another explicitly by the programmer. In Java, there are two types of casting: Type conversion occurs automatically when a ...

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