Why int j = 012 giving output 10?

Question

In my actual project It happened accidentally here is my modified small program.

I can't figure out why it is giving output 10?

public class Int
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        int j=012;//accidentaly i put zero 
        System.out.println(j);// prints 10??
    }
}

After that, I put two zeros still giving output 10.

Then I change 012 to 0123 and now it is giving output 83?

Can anyone explain why?

Answer 1

Than I change 012 to 0123 and now it is giving output 83?

Because, it's taken as octal base (8), since that numeral have 0 in leading. So, it's corresponding decimal value is 10

012 :

(2 * 8 ^ 0) + (1 * 8 ^ 1) = 10

0123 :

(3 * 8 ^ 0) + (2 * 8 ^ 1) + (1 * 8 ^ 2) = 83

Answer 2

The leading zero means the number is being interpreted as octal rather than decimal.

Answer 3

You are assigning a constant to a variable using an octal representation of an type int constant. So the compiler gets the integer value out of the octal representation 010 by converting it to the decimal representation using this algorithm 0*8^0 + 1+8^1 = 10 and then assign j to 10. Remember when you see a constant starting with 0 it's an integer in octal representation. i.e. 0111 is not 1 hundred and 11 but it's 1*8^0 + 1*8^1 + 1*8^2.