Fix decimal write-up nits.
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@ -5066,7 +5066,7 @@ class is especially helpful for financial applications and other uses which
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require exact decimal representation, control over precision, control over
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rounding to meet legal or regulatory requirements, tracking of significant
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decimal places, or for applications where the user expects the results to
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calculations done by hand.
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match calculations done by hand.
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For example, calculating a 5\%{} tax on a 70 cent phone charge gives
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different results in decimal floating point and binary floating point.
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@ -5081,10 +5081,10 @@ Decimal("0.7350")
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0.73499999999999999
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\end{verbatim}
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Note that the \class{Decimal} result keeps a trailing zero, automatically
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inferring four place significance from two digit mulitiplicands. Decimal
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reproduces mathematics as done by hand and avoids issues that can arise
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when binary floating point cannot exactly represent decimal quantities.
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The \class{Decimal} result keeps a trailing zero, automatically inferring four
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place significance from the two digit multiplicands. Decimal reproduces
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mathematics as done by hand and avoids issues that can arise when binary
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floating point cannot exactly represent decimal quantities.
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Exact representation enables the \class{Decimal} class to perform
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modulo calculations and equality tests that are unsuitable for binary
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False
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\end{verbatim}
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The \module{decimal} module also allows arbitrarily large precisions to be
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set for calculation:
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The \module{decimal} module provides arithmetic with as much precision as
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needed:
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\begin{verbatim}
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>>> getcontext().prec = 36
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