Types of numbers in Python

Python has three built in numeric data types - 

1. Integer (int)
2. Floating-point numbers (float)
3. Complex (complex)

Out of these, integers and floating-point numbers are used more commonly than complex number types.

1. Integer - int - The int data type can be used only with negative or positive numbers that don't have a decimal point. For example - 

In the above code, the float data type converts the string into a floating-point number. 

In the above code, the type of the number is already defined as a floating point number. The e notation is the short form for Exponential notation and is used to express numbers too big to fit. In this case, 1e8 means 1*10^8. If we take 3e+12,

In the code, +12 means that 12 is a positive power. We can also use e with a negative power. For example - 

3. Complex numbers - complex - A Complex Number is a number with two distinct components:A real part and an imaginary part. Python is one of the few coding languages that provides built-in support for complex numbers. An example of complex number is - 

Python puts the complex number in brackets to eliminate any confusion of it being a arithmetic expression. To find the real and imaginary element from a complex number, we can do the following - 

We can also get the complex conjugate of a number. For example - 

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References:

(1) https://realpython.com/python-numbers/#:~:text=Python%20has%20three%20built%2Din,numbers%20in%20a%20later%20section.

(2) https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_numbers.asp

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