MATLAB Programming Fundamentals - MathWorks

ans =

uint32

• Integers or integer arrays and scalar double-precision floating-point numbers. This
  yields a result that has the same data type as the integer operands:

x = uint32([132 347 528]) .* 75.49;

class(x)

ans =

uint32

For all binary operations in which one operand is an array of integer data type (except 64-
bit integers) and the other is a scalar double, MATLAB computes the operation using
element-wise double-precision arithmetic, and then converts the result back to the
original integer data type. For binary operations involving a 64-bit integer array and a
scalar double, MATLAB computes the operation as if 80-bit extended-precision arithmetic
were used, to prevent loss of precision.

Largest and Smallest Values for Integer Classes

For each integer data type, there is a largest and smallest number that you can represent
with that type. The table shown under “Integers” on page 4-2 lists the largest and
smallest values for each integer data type in the “Range of Values” column.

You can also obtain these values with the intmax and intmin functions:

intmax('int8')
ans =

int8

127

intmin('int8')
ans =

int8

-128

If you convert a number that is larger than the maximum value of an integer data type to
that type, MATLAB sets it to the maximum value. Similarly, if you convert a number that is
smaller than the minimum value of the integer data type, MATLAB sets it to the minimum
value. For example,

Integers