Yep, the [numerical tower][1].
Python's int is a bignum, but in Scheme you even have rationals built in. There's a notion of which numeric values are "exact" and which ones are "inexact" (i.e. floating point).
Python's int is a bignum, but in Scheme you even have rationals built in. There's a notion of which numeric values are "exact" and which ones are "inexact" (i.e. floating point).
Python has rational numbers in the standard library. They are easy to use there, too.