widen

widen(type | x)

If the argument is a type, return a "larger" type (for numeric types, this will be a type with at least as much range and precision as the argument, and usually more). Otherwise the argument x is converted to widen(typeof(x)).

julia> widen(Int32)
Int64

julia> widen(1.5f0)
1.5

Examples

See Also

base, big, bytes2hex, cconvert, complex, convert, dec, hex, hex2bytes, hex2num, oct, oftype, parse, promote, signed, unsafe_convert, unsigned, widen,

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