Why does Java think that the product of all numbers from 10 to 99 is 0?

Question

The following block of codes gives the output as 0.

public class HelloWorld{

    public static void main(String []args){
        int product = 1;
        fo         


        

Answer 1

It looks like an integer overflow.

Take a look at this

BigDecimal product=new BigDecimal(1);
for(int i=10;i<99;i++){
    product=product.multiply(new BigDecimal(i));
}
System.out.println(product);

Output:

25977982938941930515945176761070443325092850981258133993315252362474391176210383043658995147728530422794328291965962468114563072000000000000000000000

Output no longer be a int value. Then you will get wrong value because of the overflow.

If it overflows, it goes back to the minimum value and continues from there. If it underflows, it goes back to the maximum value and continues from there.

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Edit.

Let's change your code as follows

int product = 1;
for (int i = 10; i < 99; i++) {
   product *= i;
   System.out.println(product);
}

Out put:

10
110
1320
17160
240240
3603600
57657600
980179200
463356416
213837312
-18221056
-382642176
171806720
-343412736
348028928
110788608
-1414463488
464191488
112459776
-1033633792
-944242688
793247744
-385875968
150994944
838860800
-704643072
402653184
2013265920
-805306368
-1342177280
-2147483648
-2147483648>>>binary representation is 11111111111111111111111111101011 10000000000000000000000000000000 
 0 >>> here binary representation will become 11111111111111111111111111101011 00000000000000000000000000000000 
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