This is the code I will be using…
public class foo {
public static void main(String [] args){
int a = (int) Math.pow(2, 30);
double d = (a + a - 1.0);
double f = (a + a - 1);
System.out.println(d);
System.out.println(f);
}
}
The outputs are -2.147483649E9 and 2.147483647E9.
I do not understand why these values are printed out. It is my understanding that a + a will exceed the limits of int and therefore will switch to being negative, however, f is positive. I would expect both to be negative but f would be fractional whilst d would be an double with a point 0 due to integer division.
>Solution :
In the first case a + a overflows to Integer.MIN_VALUE, then you switch to a double context with -1.0 which gives a negative number (Integer.MIN_VALUE - 1), since a double can hold a number smaller than Integer.MIN_VALUE.
In the second example you stay in an int context, which means that a + a overflows to Integer.MIN_VALUE, then subtracting 1 from that underflows and takes you back to Integer.MAX_VALUE.