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authorMark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>2017-04-02 15:30:04 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>2017-04-02 15:30:04 (GMT)
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Fix misleading documentation for math.exp. (#951)
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@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ Power and logarithmic functions
.. function:: exp(x)
- Return ``e**x``.
-
+ Return e raised to the power *x*, where e = 2.718281... is the base
+ of natural logarithms.
.. function:: expm1(x)