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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2008-07-22 18:54:02 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2008-07-22 18:54:02 (GMT)
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@@ -1324,14 +1324,6 @@ The most general ABC is :class:`Number`. It defines no operations at
all, and only exists to allow checking if an object is a number by
doing ``isinstance(obj, Number)``.
-Numbers are further divided into :class:`Exact` and :class:`Inexact`.
-Exact numbers can represent values precisely and operations never
-round off the results or introduce tiny errors that may break the
-commutativity and associativity properties; inexact numbers may
-perform such rounding or introduce small errors. Integers, long
-integers, and rational numbers are exact, while floating-point
-and complex numbers are inexact.
-
:class:`Complex` is a subclass of :class:`Number`. Complex numbers
can undergo the basic operations of addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, and exponentiation, and you can retrieve the