Python has four basic numeric types: integers, floating point real numbers, complex numbers, and booleans. Integers can be represented in decimal, octal, hexadecimal or binary formats. Outside of base ...

An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.

For those interested in working with linear algebra with numerical tools - i.e. floating point numerical ... (not float point numbers) you'll be interested in using the SymPy package. (Sym = Symbolic) ...