 these numbers are represented in a
format called <b>floating-point</b>.</font><br />
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&gt;&gt;&gt; type(3.2)
&lt;type 'float'&gt;
</font></pre><font color="black">What about values like <code>'17'</code> and <code>'3.2'</code>?
They look like numbers, but they are in quotation marks like
