Adding number without arthemetic operator

[Mark Yevgeny]

Hello,

I want to know how to add numbers without arthemetic operator , possible hint would be fine.

Thank you

[Bear Bibeault]

What's the motivation behind the question? Sounds like one of those "I was asked this in an interview" trick questions.

[Campbell Ritchie]

That is the sort of thing you should do as a party trick and not for anything else.

Start by asking what arithmetic operator means.

[Liutauras Vilda]

Arun,

1. You can use BigInteger class and then apply "add" method. Since you and whoever asks you "don't know" the implementation details of BigInteger class, you can assume you're not using arithmetic operator (I could guess that it is not what was expected by the person who asked you that)
2. Other methodology could be using bitwise operators (&, ^) and binary shifting operator (this is likely what was expected)

Once again, what guys already told you, you should supply a bit more information, so would be possible to understand the intent of all this, and as Campbell Ritchie clearly explained you, this is not what you should be doing practically.

[Campbell Ritchie]

As long as you can be sure that the add method doesn't count as an arithmetic operator.
Hold your heart on your hand and tell me that i << 3 is not an arithmetic operation when it is equivalent to i * 8.

[Liutauras Vilda]

I took descriptions of operators from here. With all respect Campbell, I wouldn't like, but I could argue on your second statement

[Campbell Ritchie]

In that case << & | >> >>> and ^ are permitted.