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Do not talk about "real" numbers; talk about "floats" or "floating point 

numbers" instead; we have not described "reals" anywhere else in the
documentation, and this is not the place to change the story!

Reported by Keith Briggs <keith.briggs@bt.com>.
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Fred Drake 2000-12-18 13:50:24 +00:00
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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Return \code{atan(\var{y} / \var{x})}.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{ceil}{x}
Return the ceiling of \var{x} as a real.
Return the ceiling of \var{x} as a float.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{cos}{x}
@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ Return \code{e**\var{x}}.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{fabs}{x}
Return the absolute value of the real \var{x}.
Return the absolute value of the floating point number \var{x}.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{floor}{x}
Return the floor of \var{x} as a real.
Return the floor of \var{x} as a float.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{fmod}{x, y}
@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Return the base-10 logarithm of \var{x}.
\begin{funcdesc}{modf}{x}
Return the fractional and integer parts of \var{x}. Both results
carry the sign of \var{x}. The integer part is returned as a real.
carry the sign of \var{x}. The integer part is returned as a float.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{pow}{x, y}