A few questiosn about encoding

Nick the Gr33k support at superhost.gr
Fri Jun 14 08:59:01 EDT 2013


On 14/6/2013 1:50 μμ, Antoon Pardon wrote:

> Python works with numbers, but at the moment
> it has to display such a number it has to produce something
> that is printable. So it will build a string that can be
> used as a notation for that number, a numeral. And that
> is what will be displayed.

so a number is just a number but when this number needs to be displayed 
into a monitor, then the printed form of that number we choose to call 
it a numeral?

So, a numeral = a string representation of a number. Is this correct?

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