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# Number Literals

A number literal represents a number in your script.

Some examples of number literals are 16 and 3.14159. You can’t explicitly assign a type (for example, integer or floating point) to a number literal. Scientific E notation isn’t supported.

The responses to queries are in JSON. Therefore, the returned numeric field is a “number” class.