part iitalking the talk because each form requires different kind of processing the following sections describe the integerfloating-pointand complex number classes of data types that python supports integers any whole number is an integer for examplethe value is whole numberso it' an integer on the other hand isn' whole numberit has decimal part to itso it' not an integer integers are represented by the int data type as with storage boxesvariables have capacity limits trying to stuff value that' too large into storage box results in an error on most platformsyou can store numbers between - , , , , , , and , , , , , , within an int (which is the maximum value that fits in -bit variableeven though that' really large numberit isn' infinite when working with the int typeyou have access to number of interesting features many of them appear later in the bookbut one feature is the ability to use different numeric basesbase uses only and as numbers base uses the numbers through base uses the usual numeric system base is also called hex and uses the numbers through and the letters through to create different possible values to tell python when to use bases other than base you add and special letter to the number for example is the value one-zero-zero in base here are the letters you normally usebbase obase xbase it' also possible to convert numeric values to other bases using the bin()oct()and hex(commands soputting everything togetheryou can see how to convert between bases using the commands shown in figure - try the command shown in the figure yourself so that you can see how the various bases work using different base actually makes things easier in many situationsand you'll encounter some of those situations later in the book for nowall you really need to know is that integers support different numeric bases