Overloading public methods

Are these 2 methods overloaded? 

private static int howManyChar (String s, char c, int index)
{
    int count = 0;
    if (index >= s.length())
        return 0;
    if (s.charAt (index) == c)
        count++;
    count+=howManyChar (s, c, ++index);
    return count;
}

public static int howManyChar (String s, char c)
{
    if (s.length()==0)
        return 0;
    else
        return howManyChar (s, c, 0);
}

I am just not sure if it matters if one of the methods is public and the other private... I think they are overloaded.

Jon Skeet
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Yes, they're overloaded. Within a class, accessibility is irrelevant to overloading. However, accessibility matters in that it's fine to have one private method in a base class with the same signature as another method in a derived class.

Obviously from outside your class, only howManyChar(String, char) is going to be visible.

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