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Trail: Learning the Java Language
Lesson: Language Basics

## Answers to Questions and Exercises: Operators

### Answers to Questions

> 1. Consider the following code snippet:

>    >     arrayOfInts[j] > arrayOfInts[j+1]

>    Question: What operators does the code contain?
>    Answer: `[]`, `>`, `[]`, `+`
> 2. Consider the following code snippet:

>    >     int i = 10;
>    >     int n = i++%5;

>    1. Question: What are the values of `i` and `n` after the code is executed?
>       Answer: `i` is 11, and `n` is 0.]
>    2. Question: What are the final values of `i` and `n` if instead of using the postfix increment operator (`i++`), you use the prefix version (`++i)`)?
>       Answer: `i` is 11, and `n` is 1.
> 3. Question: What is the value of `i` after the following code snippet executes?

>    >     int i = 8;
>    >     i >>=2;

>    Answer: `i` is 2.
> 4. Question: What is the value of `i` after the following code snippet executes?

>    >     int i = 17;
>    >     i >>=1;

>    Answer: `i` is 8.

### Exercises

> 1. Exercise: Write a program that tests whether a floating point number is zero. (Hint: You shouldn't generally use the equality operator `==` with floating point numbers, since floating point numbers by nature are hard to match exactly. Instead, test whether the number is close to zero.)
>    Solution: `FloatTest`
> 2. Exercise: Write a program that calculates the number of US dollars equivalent to a given number of French francs. Assume an exchange rate of 6.85062 francs per dollar. If you want to control the format of the numbers your program displays, you can use the `DecimalFormat` class, which is discussed in Customizing Formats
>    Solution: `CurrencyExchange`
> 3. Write a program that uses the bits in a single integer to represent the true/false data shown in the following figure:

>    Include in the program a variable named `status`, and have the program print the meaning of `status`. For example, if `status` is 1 (only bit 0 is set) the program should print something like this:

>    >     ready to receive requests

>    1. Exercise: Show your code.
>       Solution: `Bits`
>    2. Exercise: What is the output when status is 8?
>       Solution:

>       >     unrecoverable error occurred

>    3. Exercise: What is the output when status is 7?
>       Solution:

>       >     ready to receive requests
>       >     processing a request
>       >     error recovery in progress

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