Numbers provide literal or scalar storage and direct access. A number is also an immutable type, meaning that changing or updating its value results in a newly allocated object. This activity is, of ...

Doing Math in Python Numeric Data Types There are two ways numbers are represented internally - integers and floating point numbers. Even though the numbers 1 and 1.0 have the same value their ...

Array Fixed Length (16bit, 32bit, 64bit, 128bit) Use the smallest possible size without loss of precision. All the numbers have the same size. Variable Length (16bit, 32bit, 64bit, 128bit) The ...

Not sure about rational support, but SmallTalk and ABC (predecessor to Python) have 'exact' or something, at least for integers, so you can do silly things like 1000!, if you have enough memory ...