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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2008-07-22 18:54:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2008-07-22 18:54:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 9973ee86eda8a4976d9ae5dd34e21df1b9d38b39 (patch) | |
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| parent | 5aa0b4d766910188e546bbd0eb62bf0e68f77576 (diff) | |
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Remove out-of-date section on Exact/Inexact.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst index 5cf29cb..cf9682b 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst @@ -1324,14 +1324,6 @@ The most general ABC is :class:`Number`. It defines no operations at all, and only exists to allow checking if an object is a number by doing ``isinstance(obj, Number)``. -Numbers are further divided into :class:`Exact` and :class:`Inexact`. -Exact numbers can represent values precisely and operations never -round off the results or introduce tiny errors that may break the -commutativity and associativity properties; inexact numbers may -perform such rounding or introduce small errors. Integers, long -integers, and rational numbers are exact, while floating-point -and complex numbers are inexact. - :class:`Complex` is a subclass of :class:`Number`. Complex numbers can undergo the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation, and you can retrieve the |