On 14/6/2013 11:22 πμ, Antoon Pardon wrote:
Python prints numbers:
No it doesn't, numbers are abstract concepts that can be represented in
various notations, these notations are strings. Those notaional strings
end up being printed. As I said before we are so used in using the
decimal notation that we often use the notation and the number interchangebly
without a problem. But when we are working with multiple notations that
can become confusing and we should be careful to seperate numbers from their
representaions/notations.
How do we separate a number then from its represenation-natation?
What is a notation anywat? is it a way of displayment? but that would be
a represeantion then....
Please explain this line as it uses both terms.
No it doesn't, numbers are abstract concepts that can be represented in
various notations
but when we need a decimal integer
There are no decimal integers. There is only a decimal notation of the number.
Decimal, octal etc are not characteristics of the numbers themselves.
So everything we see like:
16474
nikos
abc123
everything is a string and nothing is a number? not even number 1?
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