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On 7/24/2012 12:57 PM, bob smith wrote:
> I can never remember this.
>
> Let's say you have an integer and a float in an operation.  Is the result always a float?


You can just try this to see what you get, or read the JLS.  From 
memory, I'm 90% sure that ints will be promoted to floats.  I'm not sure 
how order of operations affects this.  In the expression (1+1)/2.0f, 
does the addition use floats or ints?  I'm not sure, but I think ints.