Fixed-point numbers

The fixed crate provides fixed-point numbers. Currently it uses the typenum crate for the fractional bit count; it is planned to move to const generics when they are implemented by the Rust compiler.

The crate provides the following types:

• FixedI8 is a signed eight-bit fixed-point number,
• FixedI16 is a signed 16-bit fixed-point number,
• FixedI32 is a signed 32-bit fixed-point number,
• FixedI64 is a signed 64-bit fixed-point number,
• FixedI128 is a signed 128-bit fixed-point number,
• FixedU8 is an unsigned eight-bit fixed-point number,
• FixedU16 is an unsigned 16-bit fixed-point number,
• FixedU32 is an unsigned 32-bit fixed-point number,
• FixedU64 is an unsigned 64-bit fixed-point number, and
• FixedU128 is an unsigned 128-bit fixed-point number.

All fixed-point numbers can have Frac fractional bits, where Frac can have any value from 0 up to and including the size of the number in bits. When Frac is 0, the fixed-point number behaves like an integer. When Frac is equal to the number of bits, the value of the fixed-point number lies in the range −0.5 ≤ x < 0.5 for signed fixed-point numbers, and in the range 0 ≤ x < 1 for unsigned fixed-point numbers.

All lossless infallible conversions between fixed-point numbers and numeric primitives are implemented. That is, you can use From or Into for the conversions that always work without losing any bits.

Quick example

// 20 integer bits, 12 fractional bits
use fixed::types::I20F12;

// 19/3 = 6 1/3
let six_and_third = I20F12::from_int(19) / 3;
// four decimal digits for 12 binary digits
assert_eq!(six_and_third.to_string(), "6.3333");
// convert to i32, taking the ceil
assert_eq!(six_and_third.ceil().to_int(), 7);

The type I20F12 is a 32-bit fixed-point signed number with 20 integer bits and 12 fractional bits. It is an alias to FixedI32<frac::U12>. The unsigned counterpart would be U20F12. Aliases are provided for all combinations of integer and fractional bits adding up to a total of eight, 16, 32, 64 or 128 bits.

Using the fixed crate

The fixed crate is available on crates.io. To use it in your crate, add it as a dependency inside Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
fixed = "0.2.0"

If you are using the 2015 Rust edition, you also need to declare it by adding this to your crate root (usually lib.rs or main.rs):

extern crate fixed;

The fixed crate requires rustc version 1.28.0 or later.

Optional features

The fixed crate has two optional feature:

1. f16, disabled by default. This provides conversion to/from f16. This features requires the half crate.
2. serde, disabled by default. This provides serialization support for the fixed-point types. This feature requires the serde crate.

To enable features, you can add the dependency like this to Cargo.toml:

[dependencies.fixed]
version = "0.2.0"
features = ["f16", "serde"]

License

This crate is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either

• the Apache License, Version 2.0 or
• the MIT License

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache License, Version 2.0, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.