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The type system of min is very simple -- only the following data types are available:

integer
: An integer number like 1, 27 or -15.
float
: A floating-point number like 3.14 or -56.9876.
string
: A series of characters wrapped in double quotes: "Hello, World!".
quotation
: A list of elements, which may also contain symbols. Quotations can be be used to create heterogenous lists of elements of any data type, and also to create a block of code that will be evaluated later on (quoted program). Example: (1 2 3 + \*)
dictionary
: A key/value table. Dictionaries are implemented as an immediately-dequoted quotation, are enclosed in curly braces, and are represented by their symbol definitions. Note that dictionary keys are symbols and therefore can only contain characters allowed in symbols. The {#link-module||dict#} provides some operators on dictionaries.

  > %sidebar%
  > Example
  >
  > The following is a simple dictionary containing three keys: *name*, *paradigm*, and *first-release-year*:
  >
  >     {
  >         "min" :name
  >         "concatenative" :paradigm
  >         2017 :first-release-year
  >     }

The {#link-module||logic#} provides predicate operators to check if an element belong to a particular data type or pseudo-type (`boolean?`, `number?`, `integer?`, `float?`, `string?`, `quotation?`, `dictionary?`).

Additionally, the {#link-module||lang#} provides operators to convert values from a data type to another (e.g. {#link-operator||lang||int#}, {#link-operator||lang||string#}, and so on).

> %note%
> Note
> 
> Most of the operators defined in the {#link-module||num#} are able to operate on both integers and floats.

{#link-learn||operators||Operators#}