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Expand Up @@ -664,8 +664,10 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
numeric_value: `floatnumber` | `infinity` | `nan`
numeric_string: [`sign`] `numeric_value`

Case is not significant, so, for example, "inf", "Inf", "INFINITY", and
"iNfINity" are all acceptable spellings for positive infinity.
Here ``digit`` is a Unicode decimal digit (characters in the Unicode general
category ``Nd``). Case is not significant, so, for example, "inf", "Inf",
"INFINITY", and "iNfINity" are all acceptable spellings for positive
infinity.

Otherwise, if the argument is an integer or a floating point number, a
floating point number with the same value (within Python's floating point
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