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On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:51:29 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:


>In a computing context, data types are incredibly significant. So yes,
>3.0 *is* a floating-point number. It's equal to the integer 3, because
>they represent the same number, but it's not identical to it. You can
>convert from one to the other with the built-ins int and float:
>
>>>> 3.0 == 3
>True
>>>> int(3.0)
>3
>>>> float(3)
>3.0

	And in a rather convoluted route, one can get to the underlying
representation...

>>> import struct
>>> f = struct.pack(">f", 3.0)
>>> i = struct.pack(">i", 3)
>>> fi = struct.unpack(">i", f)
>>> ii = struct.unpack(">i", i)	#really a waste of time
>>> "0x%8.8X 0x%8.8X" % (fi[0], ii[0])
'0x40400000 0x00000003'
>>> 
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