Compilation error: casting.

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Published on 2010-05-03T07:36:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 7:48 UTC
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Can somebody explain me why the following piece of code fails to compile. The error is: "Possible loss of precision." :

byte a = 50;
byte b = 40;
byte sum = (byte)a + b;
System.out.println(sum);

Thank you.

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