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| author | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2013-02-23 02:55:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2013-02-23 02:55:24 (GMT) |
| commit | cc5ea62e48afa0faf6b3aa0014245622b313b887 (patch) | |
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#15438: merge with 3.2.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/math.rst b/Doc/library/math.rst index 2f2558b..b69d6c6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/math.rst +++ b/Doc/library/math.rst @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ Power and logarithmic functions ``x`` is negative, and ``y`` is not an integer then ``pow(x, y)`` is undefined, and raises :exc:`ValueError`. + Unlike the built-in ``**`` operator, :func:`math.pow` converts both + its arguments to type :class:`float`. Use ``**`` or the built-in + :func:`pow` function for computing exact integer powers. + .. function:: sqrt(x) |