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Summary: Knowing Our Elixir Datatypes

Learn about Elixir's core datatypes such as numbers, atoms, lists, maps, strings, tuples, and functions. Understand their memory structures, best use cases, and potential pitfalls to build efficient Elixir programs.

In this chapter, we focused on working with data in the Elixir language. We were introduced to the following datatypes:

Numbers and atoms

We started with basic datatypes such as atoms and numbers, paying close attention to the traps related to float ...