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| Ans. equals, compareTo and hashcode are of use when the objects are used within collections. Equals helps with collections that helps maintaining only unique objects ( like Set ) compare and compareTo helps with collections that helps maintaining objects in order ( TreeSet, TreeMap etc ) hascode helps with collections that facilitates hash searching ( like hashSet, hashMap etc ) | ||||
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