Can anyone please explain how this output is achieved

Question

public class Program
{
public static void main(String[] args) {
int b=8;
char a='2';
System.out.println(a+b);
}
}
Output:58

Answer 1

I think you are getting the result in int because it casts char a to int value 🤔

value of 2 in ASCII is 50

Refer to this table to get ASCII values:

https://www.asciitable.xyz/images/ascii-table.png

Answer 2

I think the ASCII value of 2 was added to 8.