. . . 152 14 Conversion and Promotion 154 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 9 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS 10 Type Precision Number of bits Float16 Once created, they participate in arithmetic with all other numeric types thanks to Julia's type promotion and conversion mechanism: julia> BigInt(typemax(Int64)) + 1 9223372036854775808 julia> big"

. . . 152 14 Conversion and Promotion 154 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 9 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS 10 Type Precision Number of bits Float16 Once created, they participate in arithmetic with all other numeric types thanks to Julia's type promotion and conversion mechanism: julia> BigInt(typemax(Int64)) + 1 9223372036854775808 julia> big"

. . . 152 14 Conversion and Promotion 154 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 9 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS 10 Type Precision Number of bits Float16 Once created, they participate in arithmetic with all other numeric types thanks to Julia's type promotion and conversion mechanism: julia> BigInt(typemax(Int64)) + 1 9223372036854775808 julia> big"

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 14 Conversion and Promotion 161 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Defining Promotion Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 11 12 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS Type Precision Number of bits Float16

. . . 152 14 Conversion and Promotion 154 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 9 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS 10 Type Precision Number of bits Float16 Once created, they participate in arithmetic with all other numeric types thanks to Julia's type promotion and conversion mechanism: julia> BigInt(typemax(Int64)) + 1 9223372036854775808 julia> big"

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 14 Conversion and Promotion 163 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Defining Promotion Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 11 12 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS Type Precision Number of bits Float16

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 14 Conversion and Promotion 161 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Defining Promotion Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 11 12 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS Type Precision Number of bits Float16

. . . 152 14 Conversion and Promotion 154 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 9 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS 10 Type Precision Number of bits Float16 Once created, they participate in arithmetic with all other numeric types thanks to Julia's type promotion and conversion mechanism: julia> BigInt(typemax(Int64)) + 1 9223372036854775808 julia> big"

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 14 Conversion and Promotion 161 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Defining Promotion Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 11 12 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS Type Precision Number of bits Float16

. . . 152 14 Conversion and Promotion 154 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 9 CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS 10 Type Precision Number of bits Float16 Once created, they participate in arithmetic with all other numeric types thanks to Julia's type promotion and conversion mechanism: julia> BigInt(typemax(Int64)) + 1 9223372036854775808 julia> big"