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Learning Julia

Learning Julia

By : Anshul Joshi, Lakhanpal
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Learning Julia

Learning Julia

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By: Anshul Joshi, Lakhanpal

Overview of this book

Julia is a highly appropriate language for scientific computing, but it comes with all the required capabilities of a general-purpose language. It allows us to achieve C/Fortran-like performance while maintaining the concise syntax of a scripting language such as Python. It is perfect for building high-performance and concurrent applications. From the basics of its syntax to learning built-in object types, this book covers it all. This book shows you how to write effective functions, reduce code redundancies, and improve code reuse. It will be helpful for new programmers who are starting out with Julia to explore its wide and ever-growing package ecosystem and also for experienced developers/statisticians/data scientists who want to add Julia to their skill-set. The book presents the fundamentals of programming in Julia and in-depth informative examples, using a step-by-step approach. You will be taken through concepts and examples such as doing simple mathematical operations, creating loops, metaprogramming, functions, collections, multiple dispatch, and so on. By the end of the book, you will be able to apply your skills in Julia to create and explore applications of any domain.
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Integers, bits, bytes, and bools


Integers, bits, bytes, bools, and floating point numbers are used in arithmetic operations. Built-in representations of them are called as numeric primitives, and numeric literals are their representations as values in code.

Let’s understand Julia’s primitive numeric types. The following is a table of Integer types, which includes bits, bytes, and bool:

Type

Number of bits

Smallest value

Largest value

Int8

8

-2^7

2^7 - 1

UInt8

8

0

2^8 - 1

Int16

16

-2^15

2^15 - 1

UInt16

16

0

2^16 - 1

Int32

32

-2^31

2^31 - 1

UInt32

32

0

2^32 - 1

Int64

64

-2^63

2^63 - 1

UInt64

64

0

2^64 - 1

Int128

128

-2^127

2^127 - 1

UInt128

128

0

2^128 - 1

Bool

8

false (0)

true (1)

 

The UInt type refers to unsigned integers. These are those integers whose values start from 0.

This table shows the smallest and the largest values that a particular type of integer can hold.

We can also find the smallest and the largest value of a type of integer using the typemin() and typemax() function:

julia> typemax(Int32)
2147483647

julia> typemin(Int32...
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