Fix misleading documentation for math.exp. (#951)

diff --git a/Doc/library/math.rst b/Doc/library/math.rst
index da2b8cc586279150561e5650fa99b7f099148ece..b1f56929c3b4393ff69077f338664935e379096e 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/math.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/math.rst
@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ Power and logarithmic functions
 
 .. function:: exp(x)
 
-   Return ``e**x``.
-
+   Return e raised to the power *x*, where e = 2.718281... is the base
+   of natural logarithms.
 
 .. function:: expm1(x)