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Asked: 2026-05-21T15:25:21+00:00

Okay, here is what I am asked to do by my teacher. Write a

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Okay, here is what I am asked to do by my teacher. Write a basic program that uses one of the arithmetic exceptions (other than dividing a number by zero) modeling the programs you’ve seen in this lesson. Then, in a second program, write one that would not produce an error.

The one’s in the lesson were DivideByZeroException, NotFiniteNumberException, and OverflowException.

EDIT: I cannot use DivideByZeroException.

I am a beginner so I don’t know much about programming. I’m taking a high school class, so please be patient.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Bala’s answer comes close:

    Dim j As Integer = Integer.MaxValue + 1 '<-- doesn't compile

    This would indeed overflow, but it doesn’t compile because the compiler detects that we’re trying to assign a value that doesn’t fit inside an integer.

    If we pass a variable to it, then the compiler doesn’t make any assumption about the value of that variable, so the code compiles. It will fail with OverflowException at runtime.

    Dim i As Integer = Integer.MaxValue
Dim j As Integer = i + 1 '<--  OverflowException at runtime
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