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Method Overloading in Java

The document explains method overloading in Java, allowing a class to have multiple methods with the same name but different parameters. It provides a source code example with a MathOperation class that includes four overloaded 'multiply' methods for different types of arguments. The main method demonstrates calling these methods and printing the results of various multiplication operations.

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Method Overloading in Java

The document explains method overloading in Java, allowing a class to have multiple methods with the same name but different parameters. It provides a source code example with a MathOperation class that includes four overloaded 'multiply' methods for different types of arguments. The main method demonstrates calling these methods and printing the results of various multiplication operations.

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Method Overloading in Java

Method overloading, also known as function overloading, is the ability of a class to have multiple
methods with the same name, granted that they differ in either number or type of arguments.
Compiler checks method signature for method overloading.

Method signature consists of three things :

 Method name

 Number of parameters

 Types of parameters

Source Code

//Method Overloading in Java

class MathOperation {

public static int multiply(int a, int b) {

return a * b;

public static double multiply(double x, double y) {

return x * y;

public static double multiply(double i, int j) {

return i * j;

public static int multiply(int r) {

return r*r;

public class methodOverloading {

public static void main(String arg[]) {

[Link]("Multiply 2 Integer Value : " + [Link](25, 10));

[Link]("Multiply 2 Double Value : " + [Link](2.5, 8.5));

[Link]("Multiply Double & Integer Value : " + [Link](2.5, 8));

[Link]("Multiply Integer Value : " + [Link](2));


}

Output

Multiply 2 Integer Value : 250

Multiply 2 Double Value : 21.25

Multiply Double & Integer Value : 20.0

Multiply Integer Value : 4

The program demonstrates the concept of method overloading in Java.

 In this program, a class named MathOperation is created with four overloaded methods
named multiply. These methods perform multiplication operations on different types of data.

 The first multiply method accepts two integer parameters and returns their product. The
second multiply method accepts two double parameters and returns their product. The
third multiply method accepts one double and one integer parameter and returns their
product. The fourth multiply method accepts a single integer parameter and returns its
square.

 In the main method of the methodOverloading class, we call these four methods with
different arguments and display the results using [Link].

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