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> weak typing

Let me disagree! The type is always one, Number (not Int or Float).



No. There are several numeric types: ℕ, ℤ, ℚ, ℝ, ℂ, … However, mathematicians nearly always implicitly convert between them because having explicit conversions all over the place would be extremely annoying and useless.




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