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Introduction to Python | Mobile-Friendly
Introduction to Python | Mobile-Friendly
Numbers
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 numberint
- represents an integer/whole numbercomplex
- 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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