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hi,
i'm studying with the book of kathy Sierra and i wanna pass the SCJP but i foud a problem:
i didn't understand why we used to override equals() at the page 582.what is the goal of doing that.
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i found the problem.the original equals() it is like ==.so x.equals(y) return true if & if only x==y.
if 2 objects have the same parameter then it will be not equal with this method.so we need to modify it.
 
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