What are Java's primitive types?
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Solution
In Java, every variable has a type declared in the source code. There are two kinds of types: reference types and primitive types. Reference types are references to objects. Primitive types directly contain values. There are 8 primitive types:
- byte
- short
- int
- long
- char
- float
- double
- boolean
Problem
What are primitive type in Java? What is the difference between a primitive type and a reference type? How many primitive types does Java have, and what are they?