From 52ee8d1b909bac3eed00aa60862780ecba0f8caa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hitanshu310 <hitanshu98@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 16:56:46 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Adding example for Primitives

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 .../dsa/Primitives/PrimitiveExample.java      | 85 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/main/java/com/hithomelabs/dsa/Primitives/PrimitiveExample.java

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hithomelabs/dsa/Primitives/PrimitiveExample.java b/src/main/java/com/hithomelabs/dsa/Primitives/PrimitiveExample.java
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+++ b/src/main/java/com/hithomelabs/dsa/Primitives/PrimitiveExample.java
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+package com.hithomelabs.dsa.Primitives;
+
+import java.util.stream.IntStream;
+
+public class PrimitiveExample {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+
+        // * * byte, short, int and long are the integer types in Java
+
+        byte a = 24;
+        short b = 24;
+        int c = 24;
+        long d = 24;
+
+        // * * Minimum and maximum values are given by wrapper fields
+        System.out.printf("Byte has min value %d, max value %d and occupies %d bits \n",Byte.MIN_VALUE, Byte.MAX_VALUE, Byte.SIZE);
+        System.out.printf("Short has min value %d, max value %d and occupies %d bits \n",Short.MIN_VALUE, Short.MAX_VALUE, Short.SIZE);
+        System.out.printf("Integer has min value %d, max value %d and occupies %d bits \n",Integer.MIN_VALUE, Integer.MAX_VALUE, Integer.SIZE);
+        System.out.printf("Long has min value %d, max value %d and occupies %d bits \n",Long.MIN_VALUE, Long.MAX_VALUE, Long.SIZE);
+
+        // * * In Java, integer literals are int by default.
+        // * * If too large to fit in an `int` (32-bit), you must explicitly mark it as a `long`
+
+        long l = 2147483649l; // * * trying to assign a value greater than Integer.MAX_VALUE
+
+        // * * Widening convention, no explicit casting needed when converting values to a bigger type
+
+        b = a;
+        c = b;
+        d = c;
+
+        //  * * Narrowing  convention, when storing a bigger value to a smaller type (lossy conversion)
+        //  * * Explicit casting is required
+
+        c = (int) l;
+        System.out.println("The integer value is: " + c);
+
+        /*
+
+        * * The most significant 4 bytes get discarded
+
+        * * binary representation of l:    10000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
+        * * binary representation of c:    c
+
+        * * where MSB (sign) bit is set so c is in 2's complement form
+        * * value of c is -ve 2's complement of: 10000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
+        * *                           which is : 01111111 11111111 11111111 11111111
+         */
+
+        b = (short) c;
+        System.out.println("the short value is :" + b);
+
+        a = (byte) b;
+        System.out.println("the byte value is :" + a);
+
+        // * * Float and Double are data dtypes for decimals
+
+        System.out.printf("Float has min value %f, max value %f, occupies %d bits \n",Float.MIN_VALUE, Float.MAX_VALUE, Float.SIZE);
+        System.out.printf("Double has min value %f, max value %f, occupies %d bits \n",Double.MIN_VALUE, Double.MAX_VALUE, Double.SIZE);
+
+        // * * In Java, decimal literals are double by default.
+        // * * saving value to a float, f needs to be marked to the end
+
+        float dbl = 12.56565667f;
+
+        // * * trying to assign large integers to floating point types results in loss of precision but does not need to be casted
+        float fl = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
+        System.out.println("Float value of integer is :" + fl);
+
+        // * * Trying to assign largest float value to integer leads to overflow and needs to be casted.
+
+        int in = (int) Float.MAX_VALUE;
+        System.out.println("Integer value of float is :" + in);
+
+        // * * Characters are 2 bytes
+        System.out.println("Character size in bits: " + Character.SIZE);
+
+        System.out.printf("Characters range from %d to %d \n", (int) Character.MIN_VALUE, (int) Character.MAX_VALUE);
+
+        // * * First 128 characters are ASCII values
+        IntStream.rangeClosed(0,128).mapToObj(i -> (char) i).forEach(System.out::println);
+    }
+
+}