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Java Rules Roundup #47

 
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(#47) What happens when you divide an integer by a variable with a value of 0?

o Compiler Error
o Compiles and Runs
o Runtime Exception

Doesn't the answer depend on information that is not presented in the question, namely the type of the second variable?

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jdmaddison
 
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I think there is a little bit of an assumption here that because the variable has the value 0 it is either int, byte, short, or char. Any of these will throw a runtime error.

Where I think this question gets a little off is that you can do the following.

double a = 0;
5/a;

and you don't get a compile or runtime error.
 
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If u did't assume that the Data type of the second variable integer then only it will give the runtime Airthmetic Exception

Otherwise if one of the value is float/double then it will Run succesfully

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