Java does automatic type-casting when a math operator has operands of 2 different data-types, it will convert a smaller data-type to a larger data-type, for example int -> float, so the operator can ...

For example, approximating floating point multiplication with integer addition, as [Malte Skarupke] recently had a poke at based on an integer addition-only LLM approach suggested by [Hongyin Luo ...