"* Every value in a program has a specific type.\n",
"* For instance: integer,float, string\n"
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"## Use the built-in function type to find the type of a value.\n"
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"## Types control what operations (or methods) can be performed on a given value.\n"
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"## You can use the “+” and “*” operators on strings.\n"
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"## Strings have a length (but numbers don’t)."
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"## Must convert numbers to strings or vice versa when operating on them.\n"
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"## Can mix integers and floats freely in operations.\n"
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"## Complex numbers"
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"Python provides complex numbers, which are written as <span class=\"label label-default\">1.0+2.0j</span>. If val is an imaginary number, its real and imaginary parts can be accessed using dot notation as <span class=\"label label-default\">val.real</span> and <span class=\"label label-default\">val.imag</span>."
"In Python 3, the // operator performs integer (whole-number) floor division, the / operator performs floating-point division, and the ‘%’ (or modulo) operator calculates and returns the remainder from integer division.<br>\n",
"\n",
"However in Python2 (and other languages), the / operator between two integer types perform a floor (//) division. To perform a float division, we have to convert one of the integers to float\n",
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"print('5 / 3 =', 5/3)\n",
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"print('float(5)/3 =', float(5) / 3 )\n",
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"<div class=\"panel panel-warning\">\n",
" <div class=\"panel-heading\">\n",
" <h3 class=\"panel-title\">Exercise - Arithmetic with Different Types</h3>\n",
" </div>\n",
" <div class=\"panel-body\">\n",
" Which of the following will print 2.0? Note: there may be more than one right answer.<br>\n",
" first = 1.0<br>\n",
"second = \"1\"<br>\n",
"third = \"1.1\"<br>\n",
"<br> \n",
"<br> \n",
"1. first + float(second)<br>\n",
"2. float(second) + float(third)<br>\n",
"3. first + int(third)<br>\n",
"4. first + int(float(third))<br>\n",
"5. int(first) + int(float(third))<br>\n",
"6. 2.0 * second\n",
" </div>\n",
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"<div class=\"panel panel-primary\">\n",
" <div class=\"panel-heading\">\n",
" <h3 class=\"panel-title\">Key Points</h3>\n",
" </div>\n",
" <div class=\"panel-body\">\n",
" <ul>\n",
" <li>Every value has a type.</li>\n",
" <li>Use the built-in function <span class=\"label label-default\">type()</span> to find the type of a value.</li>\n",
" <li>Types control what operations can be done on values.</li>\n",
" <li>Strings can be added and multiplied.</li>\n",
" <li>Strings have a length (but numbers don’t).</li>\n",
" <li>Must convert numbers to strings or vice versa when operating on them.</li>\n",
" <li>Must convert numbers to strings or vice versa when operating on them.</li>\n",
" <li>Can mix integers and floats freely in operations.</li>\n",
