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I wanted to talk about basic types in Rust. Lets begin with Numerical Types in Rust, since Rust is a statically typed language, which means that it must know the types of all variables at compile time. I will talk about number types that are built into the language.

Numerical Types

Numerical values are divided into Integer Types and Floating-point type. A simple numerical type can be signed integer types or unsigned integer types.

Signed integer types start with i instead of u

Integer Data types are listed below:

  • i8 : The 8-bit signed integer type.
  • i16 : The 16-bit signed integer type.
  • i32 : The 32-bit signed integer type.
  • i64 : The 64-bit signed integer type.
  • u8 : The 8-bit unsigned integer type.
  • u16 : The 16-bit unsigned integer type.
  • u32 : The 32-bit unsigned integer type.
  • u64 : The 64-bit unsigned integer type.
  • isize : The pointer-sized signed integer type.
  • usize : The pointer-sized unsigned integer type.
Type MAX MIN
i8 127 -128
i16 32767 -32768
i32 2147483647 -2147483648
i64 9223372036854775807 -9223372036854775808
i128 170141183460469231731687303715884105727 -170141183460469231731687303715884105728
u8 0 255
u16 0 65535
u32 0 4294967295
u64 0 18446744073709551615
u128 0 340282366920938463463374607431768211455
let a = 100; // The default integer type in Rust is i32
let b: i8 = -128; //explicitly telling it will be an i8 type
let x = 2i8; // Equals to `let x: i8 = 2;` personally I don't like this way of, I prefer the previous statement rather

Floating Point data types are simplier, there is only 2 types.

  • f32 : The 32-bit floating point type.
  • 64 : The 64-bit floating point type.
let x = 1.5; // The default float type in Rust is f64
let y: f32 = 2.0; // setting default to f32

Summary

This was a short intro to the numerical values and the limits of each value in Rust.

Categories: Rust VSCode
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