Lua mininteger

math.mininteger is a constant that is part of Lua’s math library. The math.mininteger constant is a constant representing the smallest value that can be possibly held by an integer.

Note: The math.mininteger constant has the opposing functionality to the math.maxinteger constant which returns the highest value that can be held by an integer.

Syntax

Since mininteger is a constant from Lua’s library math, it is called as math.mininteger.

math.mininteger

Example

To find the smallest possible integer value in Lua:

print(math.mininteger)

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This results in something like the following output:

-9223372036854775808

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It can be used when assigning a variable to a very small value:

local max = math.mininteger

if someValue > max then
    max = someValue

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