. . . . . . 180 14 Conversion and Promotion 182 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 12CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS 13 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"

. . . . . . 180 14 Conversion and Promotion 182 14.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 14.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 12CHAPTER 4. INTEGERS AND FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS 13 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"

. . . . . . 190 15 Conversion and Promotion 192 15.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 15.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 5.1 Integers Literal integers are represented in the standard manner: julia> 1 1 julia> 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"

. . . . . . 190 15 Conversion and Promotion 192 15.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 15.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 5.1 Integers Literal integers are represented in the standard manner: julia> 1 1 julia> 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"

. . . . . . 190 15 Conversion and Promotion 192 15.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 15.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 5.1 Integers Literal integers are represented in the standard manner: julia> 1 1 julia> 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"

. . . . . . 190 15 Conversion and Promotion 192 15.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 15.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 5.1 Integers Literal integers are represented in the standard manner: julia> 1 1 julia> 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"

. . . . . . 190 15 Conversion and Promotion 192 15.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 15.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 5.1 Integers Literal integers are represented in the standard manner: julia> 1 1 julia> 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"

. . . . . . 190 15 Conversion and Promotion 192 15.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 15.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 5.1 Integers Literal integers are represented in the standard manner: julia> 1 1 julia> 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"

. . . . . . 190 15 Conversion and Promotion 192 15.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 15.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 5.1 Integers Literal integers are represented in the standard manner: julia> 1 1 julia> 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"

. . . . . . 191 15 Conversion and Promotion 193 15.1 Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 15.2 Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . types interoperate naturally without explicit casting, thanks to a flexible, user-extensible type promotion system. 5.1 Integers Literal integers are represented in the standard manner: julia> 1 1 julia> 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"