Using a generic class to perform basic arithmetic operations

I want to perform basic arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using only one generic method per operation for wrapper types like Integer, Float, Double … (excluding BigDecimal and BigInteger).

I have tried to do something like the following (for addition) using a generic class.

public final class GenericClass<E extends Number> {

    public E add(E x, E y) {
        return x + y; // Compile-time error
    }
}

It issues a compile-time error,

operator + cannot be applied to E,E

Is there a way to use such a generic version to achieve such operations?

Answer

No, there isn’t a way to do this, or else it would be built into Java. The type system isn’t strong enough to express this sort of thing.