From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:41:31 +0000 (-0500) Subject: closes #13730 X-Git-Tag: v2.7.3rc1~174 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ba76b68b9abdd2a435f8ddfe4638052cbb03d33;p=python closes #13730 --- diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst index 8ac59f422d..f9e70de6a9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ arithmetic. It offers several advantages over the :class:`float` datatype: people learn at school." -- excerpt from the decimal arithmetic specification. * Decimal numbers can be represented exactly. In contrast, numbers like - :const:`1.1` and :const:`2.2` do not have an exact representations in binary + :const:`1.1` and :const:`2.2` do not have exact representations in binary floating point. End users typically would not expect ``1.1 + 2.2`` to display as :const:`3.3000000000000003` as it does with binary floating point.