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In the previous chapters, you operated with numbers. There are many variants of number classifications in math (negative/positive, rational/irrational, etc.). How does Python distinguish between numbers? There are three numerical types in Python:

  • float - represents a floating-point number
  • int - represents an integer/whole number
  • complex - represents a complex number

We won’t focus too much on complex numbers, since this is a branch of Further Mathematics. To get the type of a certain value/variable, use the type() function. For example, let's output the types of the numbers 5 and 10.5.

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Which of the following answers is not a Python numerical type?

Select the correct answer

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