Editing Integer (computer science) (section)

== Extreme values ==
In many programming languages, there exist predefined constants representing the least and the greatest values representable with a given integer type. 

Names for these include
* [[SmallBASIC]]: {{code|MAXINT|lang=basic}}<ref>{{cite web|title=SmallBASIC {{!}} MAXINT|url=https://smallbasic.github.io/reference/1736|access-date=2025-01-20}}</ref>
* [[Java (programming language)|Java]]: {{java|java.lang.Integer.MAX_VALUE}}, {{java|java.lang.Integer.MIN_VALUE}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Integer (Java Platform SE 8 )|url=https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api///java/lang/Integer.html|access-date=2025-01-20}}</ref>
*: Corresponding fields exist for the other integer classes in Java.
* [[C (programming language)|C]]: {{c-lang|INT_MAX}}, etc.{{cn|date=January 2025}}
** [[GLib]]: {{c-lang|G_MININT}}, {{c-lang|G_MAXINT}}, {{c-lang|G_MAXUINT}}, ...<ref>{{cite web|title=Limits of Basic Types|url=https://web.mit.edu/barnowl/share/gtk-doc/html/glib/glib-Limits-of-Basic-Types.html|access-date=2025-01-20}}</ref>
* [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]]: {{code|minBound}}, {{code|maxBound}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Prelude|url=https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.21.0.0/docs/Prelude.html#t:Bounded}}</ref>
* [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]]: {{code|MaxInt|pascal}}{{cn|date=January 2025}}
* [[Python 2]]: {{python|sys.maxint}}{{cn|date=January 2025}}
* [[Turing (programming language)|Turing]]: {{code|maxint}}<ref>{{cite book|author-last=Grogono|author-first=Peter|title=Programming with Turing and Object Oriented Turing|lccn=95010802|doi=10.1007/978-1-4612-4238-3|year=1995|publisher=Springer|location=New York|page=363}}</ref>