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MackTheKnife Answered:

The || symbol in java and in all the C family or programming languages is used to signify "or" in a condition.

For example you want to invoke a particular method if either one of 2 condition occurs. So you would type:

if(condition 1 || condition 2).

If either of these condition is upheld then the method would be invoked.

In contrast, you have the && which is used to symbolise "and"

so you would have:

if(condition 1 && condition 2)

the method would be invoked only if both of these conditions is upheld. If one of them is not then the method would not be invoked.

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