It is not a Python thing, it is a floating-point thing. You need it if you want hardware support (CPU/GPU) for non-integer arithmetic in any language. Otherwise

It is not a Python thing, it is a floating-point thing. You need it if you want hardware support (CPU/GPU) for non-integer arithmetic in any language. Otherwise, you have decimal, fractions, sympy, etc modules depending on your needs. https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html