Mathematics with Python and Ruby/Numbers

The Python language is weakly typed, which means that it determines the type of a variable at the moment of first allocation (its instantiation). Python possesses five categories of numbers:

1. int for whole numbers;
2. long for large whole numbers;
3. fraction for fractions (divisions of whole numbers);
4. decimal and float for real numbers (in reality, decimal numbers);
5. complex for complex numbers.

• • Whole numbers
  • Fractions
  • Real numbers
  • Complex numbers
  • Quaternions