From: Mark Dickinson Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:42:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 78314 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v3.1.2rc1~66 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f9793a36a490a2702da5b3055b757dc9882bbaa8;p=python Merged revisions 78314 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ................ r78314 | mark.dickinson | 2010-02-22 15:41:48 +0000 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 9 lines Merged revisions 78312 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r78312 | mark.dickinson | 2010-02-22 15:40:28 +0000 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line Clarify description of three-argument pow for Decimal types: the exponent of the result is always 0. ........ ................ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst index 77769cdd6c..a482417d7e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst @@ -1215,9 +1215,12 @@ In addition to the three supplied contexts, new contexts can be created with the - at least one of ``x`` or ``y`` must be nonzero - ``modulo`` must be nonzero and have at most 'precision' digits - The result of ``Context.power(x, y, modulo)`` is identical to the result - that would be obtained by computing ``(x**y) % modulo`` with unbounded - precision, but is computed more efficiently. It is always exact. + The value resulting from ``Context.power(x, y, modulo)`` is + equal to the value that would be obtained by computing ``(x**y) + % modulo`` with unbounded precision, but is computed more + efficiently. The exponent of the result is zero, regardless of + the exponents of ``x``, ``y`` and ``modulo``. The result is + always exact. .. method:: quantize(x, y)