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TL;DR:

In Python, following returns False.

9007199254740993 == 9007199254740993.0

The floating point number 9007199254740993.0 is internally represented in memory as 9007199254740992.0 (due to how floating point works).

Python has special logic for comparing int with floats. Here it will try to compare the int 9007199254740993 with the float 9007199254740992.0. Python sees that the integer parts are different, so it will stop there and return False.

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