Thread priority

[MustSeeMelons]

Hello.
Could someone please explain the below code to me? Nothing difficult, but i cant get my head around it.. Why does the output look like this:

6
54 13 10 
5
53 13 10 
3
51 13 10 

13 10 

13 10 
3
51 13 10

class PriorityDemo
{
   public static void main (String [] args)
   {
      BlockingThread bt = new BlockingThread ();
      bt.setPriority (Thread.NORM_PRIORITY + 1);
      CalculatingThread ct = new CalculatingThread ();
      bt.start ();
      ct.start ();
      try
      {
          Thread.sleep (10000);
      }
      catch (InterruptedException e)
      {
      }
      bt.setFinished (true);
      ct.setFinished (true);
   }
}
class BlockingThread extends Thread
{
   private boolean finished = false;
   public void run ()
   {
      while (!finished)
      {
         try
         {
            int i;
            do
            {
               i = System.in.read ();
               System.out.print (i + " ");
            }
            while (i != '\n');
            System.out.print ('\n');
         }
         catch (java.io.IOException e)
         {
         }
      }
   }
   public void setFinished (boolean f)
   {
      finished = f;
   }
}
class CalculatingThread extends Thread
{
   private boolean finished = false;
   public void run ()
   {
      int sum = 0;
      while (!finished)
         sum++;
   }
   public void setFinished (boolean f)
   {
      finished = f;
   }
}

[DarrylBurke]

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[MustSeeMelons]

My topic got moved, i feel more skilled already
Back to the point - the output, as far as i have understood..:
The main thread starts 2 new thread, a blocking (higher priority than the other two) thread and a calculation thread and goes to sleep.
The blocking thread then goes into action, asking for user input (blocking itself,and then calc thread runs if the main is still sleeping?). Afterwards prints someoutput which i cant understand: i enter 5, but the printed info is: 53 12 10.. why?
The threads keep running till main wakes and edits the finished variables so that the other two threads stop. Am i getting this right?
Could someone please explain a bit more? Thanks!

[Potato]

If you use System.in.read(), you're reading characters one at a time.

So the number '5' actually has the numeric value 53 (look at an ASCII table like this: Ascii Table - ASCII character codes and html, octal, hex and decimal chart conversion)

If you enter 5, this is what System.in.read() will give you. 3 characters, they are:

5\r\n

That's the character 5, a carriage return, and a new line, otherwise known as:

53 13 10

What you want to do is use char instead of int. Maybe this:

class BlockingThread extends Thread
{
   private boolean finished = false;
   public void run ()
   {
      while (!finished)
      {
         try
         {
            char c;
            do
            {
               c = (char) System.in.read ();
               System.out.print (c + " ");
            }
            while (c != '\n');
            System.out.print ('\n');
         }
         catch (java.io.IOException e)
         {
         }
      }
   }
   public void setFinished (boolean f)
   {
      finished = f;
   }
}

[MustSeeMelons]

Thanks mate for clearing that out ;)