figure - integers have many interesting featuresincluding the capabil ity to use different numeric bases floating-point values any number that includes decimal portion is floating-point value for example has decimal partso it' floating-point value many people get confused about whole numbers and floating-point numbersbut the difference is easy to remember if you see decimal in the numberthen it' floatingpoint value python stores floating-point values in the float data type floating-point values have an advantage over integer values in that you can store immensely large or incredibly small values in them as with integer variablesfloating-point variables have storage capacity in their casethe maximum value that variable can contain is +- and the minimum value that variable can contain is +- - on most platforms when working with floating-point valuesyou can assign the information to the variable in number of ways the two most common methods are to provide the number directly and to use scientific notation when using scientific notationan separates the number from its exponent figure - shows both methods of making an assignment notice that using negative exponent results in fractional value