Is is correct to say that in fish all variable values are strings?

For example,
set pi 3.1415928
string length $pi # 9

Is that because the value is actually stored as a string or
does it convert it from a number to a string when "string length" is called
on it?

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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.
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