Float
Lutz Horn
lutz.horn at posteo.de
Fri Jul 29 05:56:55 EDT 2016
Am 07/29/2016 um 11:44 AM schrieb Cai Gengyang:
> Can someone explain in layman's terms what "float" means ?
The Python builtin float[1]
> Return a floating point number constructed from a number or string x.
A floating point number[2] is number that is not an integer (and not a
complex number). It
> is the formulaic representation that approximates a real number
since computers can't handle handle "real" real numbers which would
require infinite precision.
Examples are
1.0
3.14159
Lutz
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#float
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point
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