Actually it looks like casting (being a unary operator) takes precedence over multiplication: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/operato

Actually it looks like casting (being a unary operator) takes precedence over multiplication: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/operators.html http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/op... http://www.cs.uwf.edu/~eelsheik/cop2253/resources/op_precedence.html http://www.cs.uwf.edu/~eelsheik/cop2253/resources/op_precede...