r of times something has happened. This in particular will come in handy when we look at loops later on in this course." ) }}</p>

<p>Unlike integers, floats are any numbers <em>with</em> decimal places. Even if a float is technically a whole number like 42, in order for it to be a float it would have to have a .0 at the end of it 42.0. </p>

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