At the time of writing, all [primitive numeric types] in Rust provide MIN
and MAX
associated constants, which nonetheless do not belong to any [trait].
One commonly used crate, [num-traits
], offers many useful traits for numeric types. However, the closest
analogue of min_max_traits::Min
and min_max_traits::Max
offered by [num-traits
] at the time of writing
is [num_traits::Bounded
], which requires implementation of min_value()
and max_value()
functions. Since const_fn_trait_bound
feature is in the works, [num_traits::Bounded
] cannot be used in generic implementations of constant functions
relying on MIN
and MAX
[associated constants], at least on stable Rust.
These traits can be useful, for example, to generically implement [associated constants] storing the greatest length of primitive integers when converted to strings.
Excerpt from Rust's reference:
The unsigned integer types consist of:
Type | Minimum | Maximum
-------|---------|-------------------
u8
| 0 | 28-1
u16
| 0 | 216-1
u32
| 0 | 232-1
u64
| 0 | 264-1
u128
| 0 | 2128-1
The signed two's complement integer types consist of:
Type | Minimum | Maximum
-------|--------------------|-------------------
i8
| -(27) | 27-1
i16
| -(215) | 215-1
i32
| -(231) | 231-1
i64
| -(263) | 263-1
i128
| -(2127) | 2127-1
The IEEE 754-2008 "binary32" and "binary64" floating-point types are f32
and
f64
, respectively.
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