Chapter 5. Numbers

Chapter Topics

• Introduction to Numbers

• Integers

• Boolean

• Standard Integers

• Long Integers

• Floating Point Real Numbers

• Complex Numbers

• Operators

• Built-in Functions

• Other Numeric Types

• Related Modules

In this chapter, we will focus on Python’s numeric types. We will cover each type in detail, then present the various operators and built-in functions that can be used with numbers. We conclude this chapter by introducing some of the standard library modules that deal with numbers.

5.1 Introduction to Numbers

Numbers provide literal or scalar storage and direct access. A number is also an immutable type, meaning that changing or updating its value results in a newly allocated object. This ...

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