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Published: Feb 26 2013 / 08:36

How to Swap two numbers without using temp variable in Java
Swapping two number without using temp variable is a classical programming exercise, appears in various Java Interviews. Couple of ways to solve it.
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bloid replied ago:

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Whilst reasonably interesting from an academic point of view, the addition and multiplication methods will fail if anything overflows. The multiplication method will fail if one of the variables is zero. Also all of the methods are harder to read and will probably be slower than using a temp variable and a decent compiler...

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