le keys.)  Additionally,
 classes are provided only for those types that are commonly useful in
 intended applications.  For example, there is no atomic class for
 representing <code>byte</code>.  In those infrequent cases where you would
 like to do so, you can use an <code>AtomicInteger</code> to hold
 <code>byte</code> values, and cast appropriately.

 You can also hold floats using
 <code><a href="../../../../../reference/java/lang/Float.html#floatToRawIntBits(float)">floatToRawIntBits(float)</a></code>