From fed0883e948f4dc83c27fee5bc730f34d96098be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:09:50 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Issue #28615: Backport imaginary/complex number text from 3.x. Patch by Mariatta Wijaya. --- Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 60c570b7c12..9f5255a58a4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ represented as a plain integer, in which case they yield a long integer. Integer literals with an ``'L'`` or ``'l'`` suffix yield long integers (``'L'`` is preferred because ``1l`` looks too much like eleven!). Numeric literals containing a decimal point or an exponent sign yield floating point numbers. -Appending ``'j'`` or ``'J'`` to a numeric literal yields a complex number with a -zero real part. A complex numeric literal is the sum of a real and an imaginary -part. +Appending ``'j'`` or ``'J'`` to a numeric literal yields an imaginary number +(a complex number with a zero real part) which you can add to an integer or +float to get a complex number with real and imaginary parts. .. index:: single: arithmetic