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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-06 15:41:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-06 15:41:50 (GMT) |
| commit | db210dfba28524935a61959c2edf96496d33bf19 (patch) | |
| tree | b2da415dcee7b2ca3dcf0d17e655551b18851182 | |
| parent | a8cbad3b834a60abc211dfcc76ad0612c834b931 (diff) | |
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#1501: document that 0**0 == 1.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index d7e7d49..5d7698f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -311,9 +311,9 @@ All builtin numeric types support the following operations. See +--------------------+---------------------------------+--------+ | ``divmod(x, y)`` | the pair ``(x // y, x % y)`` | (3)(4) | +--------------------+---------------------------------+--------+ -| ``pow(x, y)`` | *x* to the power *y* | \(3) | +| ``pow(x, y)`` | *x* to the power *y* | (3)(7) | +--------------------+---------------------------------+--------+ -| ``x ** y`` | *x* to the power *y* | | +| ``x ** y`` | *x* to the power *y* | \(7) | +--------------------+---------------------------------+--------+ .. index:: @@ -366,6 +366,10 @@ Notes: .. versionadded:: 2.6 +(7) + Python defines ``pow(0, 0)`` and ``0 ** 0`` to be ``1``, as is common for + programming languages. + All :class:`numbers.Real` types (:class:`int`, :class:`long`, and :class:`float`) also include the following operations: |