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| author | Stan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com> | 2025-01-04 17:38:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2025-01-04 17:38:57 (GMT) |
| commit | f28d471fbe99f9eaac05d60ed40da47b0b56fe86 (patch) | |
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gh-126719: Clarify math.fmod docs (#127741)
Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/math.rst b/Doc/library/math.rst index bf79b23..c78b313 100644 --- a/Doc/library/math.rst +++ b/Doc/library/math.rst @@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ Floating point arithmetic .. function:: fmod(x, y) - Return ``fmod(x, y)``, as defined by the platform C library. Note that the + Return the floating-point remainder of ``x / y``, + as defined by the platform C library function ``fmod(x, y)``. Note that the Python expression ``x % y`` may not return the same result. The intent of the C standard is that ``fmod(x, y)`` be exactly (mathematically; to infinite precision) equal to ``x - n*y`` for some integer *n* such that the result has |