Is it possible to return either a borrowed or owned type in Rust?

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Since BigInt implements Clone, you can use a std::borrow::Cow:

use num::bigint::BigInt; // 0.2.0
use std::borrow::Cow;

fn cal(a: BigInt, b: BigInt, floor: &BigInt) -> Cow<BigInt> {
    let c: BigInt = a - b;
    if c.ge(floor) {
        Cow::Owned(c)
    } else {
        Cow::Borrowed(floor)
    }
}

Later, you can use Cow::into_owned() to get a owned version of BigInt, or just use it as a reference:

fn main() {
    let a = BigInt::from(1);
    let b = BigInt::from(2);
    let c = &BigInt::from(3);

    let result = cal(a, b, c);

    let ref_result = &result;
    println!("ref result: {}", ref_result);

    let owned_result = result.into_owned();
    println!("owned result: {}", owned_result);
}

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