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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Mathematics crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates with a mathematical aspect.” Below are the 6 crates in it among the 1000 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, crypto-bigint leads Mathematics with 937,488 real downloads a day (established and steady). 2 of the 6 have 1,000+ dependents; 0 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 0.9% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
6 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crypto-bigintEstablished | 937,488 | 167 | 1d | +2% | 317M | |
| pxfmPulled in | 584,908 | 11 | 4mo | +18% | 103M | |
| rust_decimalWidely used | 463,122 | 2,295 | 52d | -10% | 164M | |
| bigdecimalEstablished | 365,613 | 588 | 26d | -4% | 134M | |
| smawkPulled in | 273,437 | 3 | 4mo | +10% | 106M | |
| nalgebraWidely used | 206,314 | 2,134 | 5mo | -14% | 97.4M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io
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