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/**
 * @file
 * @brief Provides basic types used in aGrUM.
 *
 * @warning Do not include this file directlty : instead include
 * <agrum/config.h>.
 *
 * @author Christophe GONZALES and Pierre-Henri WUILLEMIN
 */
#ifndef GUM_TYPES_H
#define GUM_TYPES_H

#include <climits>
#include <cstddef>

namespace gum {

  /// @ingroup configuration_group
  /// @{

  /**
   * In aGrUM, hashed values are unsigned long int. This is sufficient to deal
   * with Bayes nets and other graphs already big enough to be unmanageable
   * from a computational point of view.
   */
  typedef std::size_t Size;   // std::size_t Size;

  /**
   * Type for indexes.
   */
  typedef Size Idx;   // std::size_t Idx;


  /// @}

} /* namespace gum */

#endif /* GUM_TYPES_H */
