Code Style: What's the difference between primitive types and arrays? (stub article)

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A: Primitive data types are containers that hold references to fundamental numeric, logical, byte and character literal data and are built-in to the Java language and runtime system. They are called primitive because they have a relatively simple physical storage format and size. Primitives are not Java objects and objects cannot be cast to a type that could be stored in a primitive variable.

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What's the difference between primitive types and arrays?

What's the difference between primitive types and arrays?

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