What does System.in.read actually return?

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49 is the ASCII value of the char 1. It is the value of the first byte.

The stream of bytes that is produced when you enter 10Enter on your console or terminal contains the three bytes {49,48,10} (on my Mac, may end with 10,12 or 12 instead of 10, depending on your System).

So the output of the simple snippet 

int b = System.in.read();
while (b != -1) {
    System.out.println(b);
    b = System.in.read();
}

after entering a 10 and hitting enter, is (on my machine)

49
48
10

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