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binary operator comparison table

Subject		indicate	have syntax	be	is a kind of	is a subtopic of	have example	is an instance of	have purpose	evaluate	return	use by
!=						Operators		relational operator	to return true if the operands are not equal		a value called its result
%		modulus	operand1 % operand2			Operators		binary operator	to compute the remainder of dividing one operand by another		a value called its result
&						Operators		logical operator	to return true if both operands evaluate to true	both its operands	a boolean
&&		logical AND				Operators		short circuit operator	to return true if both operands evaluate to true	its second operand only if the first operand returns true	a boolean
*		multiplication	operand1 * operand2			Operators		binary operator	to multiply one operand by another		a value called its result
+	+ indicates string concatenation if its operands have type String otherwise + indicates addition	addition	operand1 + operand2	said to be an overloaded operator because it has two different meanings depending on the types of its operands		Operators		binary operator	to add two operands together or to perform string concatenation		a value called its result
-		subtraction	operand1 - operand2			Operators		binary operator	to subtract one operand from another		a value called its result
/		division	operand1 / operand2			Operators		binary operator	to divide one operand by another		a value called its result
<								relational operator	to return true if the first operand is less than the second operand		a value called its result
<=						Operators		relational operator	to return true if the first operand is less than or equal to the second operand		a value called its result
==						Operators		relational operator	to compare any two variables to test if they are identical, which means they either refer to the same objects or have the same primitive values		a boolean	boolean data type
>						Operators		relational operator	to return true if the first operand is greater than the second operand		a value called its result
>=						Operators		relational operator	to return true if the first operand is greater than or equal to the second operand		a value called its result
caret						Operators		bitwise operator	to perform a bitwise exclusive or		a value called its result
instanceof operator					binary operator	Operators	sylvester instanceOf Dog //returns false fido instanceof Dog //returns true		to return true if the instance is either a direct instance of the given class or of a subclass of that class		a value called its result
|						Operators		logical operator	to return true if at least one of its operands evaluates to true	both its operands	a boolean
||		logical OR				Operators		short circuit operator	to return true if at least one of its operands evaluates to true	its second operand only if the first operand returns false	a boolean

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