ation processes</a> of this type behave like for the <a href="https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-int/index.html">Int</a> type.</p><p class="paragraph">Here's an example of Kotlin code that encodes and decodes this type using the <a href="https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.serialization/kotlinx-serialization-json/kotlinx.serialization.json/-json">JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format from kotlinx.serialization</a>:</p><div class="sample-container"><pre><code class="block lang-kotlin" the