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Static Data Members
•When we use the keyword static in the declaration a data member, only one occurrence of that data member exists for all instances of the class. Such
data members belong to
the class and not to an individual object and are called static data members. Static
data represents class
data rather than object data.
•To specify a static data member, we must supply the declaration inside the class interface and the definition outside the class interface. Unlike a non-static data member, a static data member's
declaration does not
cause memory to be allocated when an object is defined.