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These traits are all <span class="emphasis"><em>value traits</em></span>, which is to say the
traits classes all inherit from <a class="link" href="../reference/integral_constant.html" title="integral_constant">integral_constant</a>,
and are used to access some numerical property of a type. Often this is a
simple true or false Boolean value, but in a few cases may be some other
integer value (for example when dealing with type alignments, or array bounds:
see <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../reference/alignment_of.html" title="alignment_of">alignment_of</a></code>,
<code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../reference/rank.html" title="rank">rank</a></code>
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