Copy-and-Paste Program

If you really want to add one half to one half you should write 1.0/2.0 + 1.0/2.0 because now the decimal points make each number a double. Here is a Java application that illustrates these points:

class IntegerDivision
{
  public static void main ( String[] args )
  {
    System.out.println("The result is: " + (1/2 + 1/2) );
  }
}

You can run this program by copying it to a file IntegerDivision.java, compiling and running it. See a previous chapter for details on doing this. It would be nice if you made a few changes to the program using your text editor then ran the program to see the effect.

Notice the parentheses around   (1/2 + 1/2). These are necessary so that the arithmetic is done first, then the result is converted to characters and appended to the string.