# Basic values in Kotlin

DevFeed: [Basic values in Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/basic-values-in-kotlin-39341.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://kt.academy/article/kfde-values>)

Published: 2023-02-27T00:01:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Kt. Academy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kt-academy.md>)

Topics: [Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>)

Tags: [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [floating-point](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/floating-point.md>), [format](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/format.md>), [kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin.md>), [literals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/literals.md>), [number](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/number.md>), [operations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operations.md>), [precision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/precision.md>), [readability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/readability.md>), [types](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/types.md>), [values](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/values.md>), [workshop-learning-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workshop-learning-programming.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial introduces Kotlin's basic value types and literals, including numbers, booleans, characters, strings, and arrays. It explains Kotlin's object model, compiler optimization of some types, numeric ranges and precision, explicit type conversions, and underscore formatting in number literals.

## Source excerpt

Learn about the basic Kotlin values, types and operations.