Dealing with Numbers

The recipes in this chapter are:

• Converting strings to numbers
• Comparing floating-point numbers
• Rounding floating-point numbers
• Floating-point arithmetics
• Formatting numbers
• Converting between binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
• Formatting with the correct plurals
• Generating random numbers
• Operating complex numbers
• Converting between degrees and radians
• Taking logarithms
• Generating checksums