From 4ba76b68b9abdd2a435f8ddfe4638052cbb03d33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:41:31 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] closes #13730 --- Doc/library/decimal.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst index 8ac59f422d6..f9e70de6a96 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.