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Perl supports integers (decimal, octal, hexadecimal), floating point numbers, scientific notation, Booleans, and null

$year = 2006;                # integer $mode = 0775;                # octal number in base 8 $product_price = 29.95;      # floating point number in base 10 $favorite_color = 0x33CC99;  # integer in base 16 (hexadecimal) $distance_to_moon=3.844e+5;  # floating point in scientific notation $bits = 0b10110110;          # binary number