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(IEEE 754 double-precision binary floating-point, to be (doubly) precise.)

I am the buyer, aka Steven He’s father. I am played by Steven He. I wear a dark grey jacket over a red t-shirt.

And I am the seller, a purveyor of questionable goods. I am played by Stiffen E, a cheap, low-quality Steven He substitute. Made in China, of course. I wear a puffy yellow-and-purple jacket.

(Translator’s note: wait, wasn’t the original Steven He made in China?)

Do you have $1/3$ ?

We have $0.5555555555555 (base 16)$ .

You mean $0.5555555555555\ldots (base 16)$ ?

Yes, $0.5555555555555 (base 16)$ .

(TL: note the conspicuous absence of continuations dots)

You have $0.3$ ?

We have $0.4CCCCCCCCCCC (base 16)$ .

Do you have any primes?

We have over a trillion primes!

And multiplicative inverses of primes?

Slightly less, but yeah, we have them.

How much, exactly, is “slightly” less?

Just one.

You have $\sqrt{2}$ ?

We have $1.6A09E667F3BCD (base 16)$ .

Okay, do you have the square of whatever that is?

We have $2.0000000000002 (base 16)$ .

You have sixth roots of unity?

We have $1$ and $-1$.

The hell? Where are the other four?

You have $\pi$ ?

We have crumbs.

You have Euler’s number?

We have Euler’s eyeball.

You have continued fractions?

We have compound fractures.

You have imaginary numbers?

We have things that aren’t numbers.