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As illumen pointed out, Python has also got fractions. For things like Pi however, there is no exact numerical representation and you'd probably want sympy or something similar.


Sure. But the inability to represent 1/3 in decimal is just the same as inability to represent 1/10 in binary. The binary case just seems different because we are using a foreign base (decimal) literal "0.1" to express the binary number.




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