You mentioned that : A floating point number[2] is number that is not an integer (and not a complex number)
Hence , 10 is not a floating point number because it is an integer 25 is not a floating point number because it is an integer 7 + 3i is not a floating number because it is a complex number 8 + 5i is not a floating number because it is a complex number. Is 3.0 a floating number ? It is a rational number, not an integer right ? On Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 6:34:25 PM UTC+8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 08:21 pm, Cai Gengyang wrote: > > > Cool ... can you give a concrete example ? > > A concrete example of a float? > > I already gave two: > > > >> Python floats use 64 bits (approximately 18 decimal digits). Because the > >> decimal point can "float" from place to place, they can represent very > >> small numbers: > >> > >> 1.2345678901234567e-100 > >> > >> and very big numbers: > >> > >> 1.2345678901234567e100 > > > Here are some more: > > 0.5 # one half > 0.25 # one quarter > 7.5 # seven and a quarter > 0.001 # one thousandth > > 12345.6789 > # twelve thousand, three hundred and forty-five, point six seven eight nine > > -1.75 # minus one point seven five > 0.0 # zero > 3.0 # three > > 1.23e45 # one point two three times ten to the power of forty-five > > > > > -- > Steven > “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure > enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
