No We cannot add two byte variables directly. The reason behind is the oper

Can we add two byte variables and assign the result to a
byte variable ?
b=b1+b2 where b,b1,b2 are byte types

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Answer Posted / ashish ranjan

No We cannot add two byte variables directly. The reason behind is the operator '+' is used to perform integer operation. so the variables are automatically promoted to the integer when we perform any arithmetic operation.

so we need to typecast the variables

b= (byte)(b1 + b2);

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