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Trail: Learning the Java Language
Lesson: Object Basics and Simple Data Objects

Questions and Exercises: Numbers

Questions

1. Use the API documentation to find the answers to the following questions:
a. What Integer method can you use to convert an int into a string that expresses the number in hexadecimal? For example, what method converts the integer 65 into the string "41"?

b. What two Integer methods would you use to convert a string expressed in base 5 into the equivalent int? For example, how would you convert the string "230" into the integer value 65? Show the code you would use to accomplish this task.

c. What Double method can you use to detect whether a floating-point number has the special value Not a Number (NaN)?

2. What is the value of the following expression, and why?
new Integer(1).equals(new Long(1))

Exercises

1. Change MaxVariablesDemo (in a .java source file) to show minimum values instead of maximum values. You can delete all code related to the variables aChar and aBoolean. What is the output?

2. Create a program that reads an unspecified number of integer arguments from the command line and adds them together. For example, suppose that you enter the following:

java Adder 1 3 2 10
The program should display 16 and then exit. The program should display an error message if the user enters only one argument. You can base your program on ValueOfDemo (in a .java source file).

3. Create a program that is similar to the previous one but has the following differences:

For example, suppose that you enter the following:
java FPAdder 1 1e2 3.0 4.754
The program would display 108.75. Depending on your locale, the decimal point might be a comma (,) instead of a period (.).

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