By understanding type conversion, casting, and type promotion, you'll be better equipped to manage data types and handle conversions between them in your Java programs.

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Okay, I've got two objects. There's the Hand object, and the Finger object. These are fake. The mappings are correct, I believe, everything works fine usually, I think I'm just misunderstanding ...