[Tutor] Simple User Entry Verification

[Ian Egland]

Newbie here who can't figure out why this doesn't work:

start = input("Please enter the starting number.\n>")
print(type(start))
while type(start)!=float:
    start = input("Sorry, that number was invalid.\nPlease enter the
starting number.\n>")
    print(type(start))
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