Beginning Rust: From Novice to Professional

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Carlo MilanesiBeginning Rusthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3468-6_6

6. Using Primitive Types

Carlo Milanesi¹ 

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Bergamo, Italy

 

In this chapter, you will learn:

• How to write numeric literals in hexadecimal, octal, or binary notation

• How to use the underscore character to make numeric literals easier to read

• How to use the exponential notation to write huge or tiny numbers in a compact form

• Which are the ten primitive integer numeric types, and the two primitive floating-point numeric types; which are their ranges; and when it is better to use each of them

• How to specify numeric literals of concrete types or of unconstrained types

• How to convert a numeric value to another numeric type

• The other primitive types: Booleans, characters, ...