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equals method comparison table

Subject	have example	have purpose	is a subtopic of	is a kind of	is an instance of
Java method			9.1 - The Process of Design	method
equals method	boolean b = aPostalCode.equals(anotherPostalCode);	to test whether two objects are equal i.e. they contain the same data, but are not necessarily the same object	The Basics of Java		Java method

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