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author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2000-09-16 03:54:24 (GMT) |
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committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2000-09-16 03:54:24 (GMT) |
commit | 78fc0b57dfd4bf8d3d3ab82e4ffe98cbd6075dac (patch) | |
tree | bbc3e5a62e821b16cdfd0acc94a439b481cb90ed /Doc | |
parent | 53db8154e604959daa1edc08c6573a43f896e410 (diff) | |
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Fixed legit gripe from c.l.py that math.fmod docs aren't confusing enough.
FRED, please check my monkey-see-monkey-do Tex fiddling!
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmath.tex b/Doc/lib/libmath.tex index 598431b..6edf502 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libmath.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libmath.tex @@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ Return the floor of \var{x} as a real. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{fmod}{x, y} -Return \code{\var{x} \%\ \var{y}}. +Return \code{fmod(\var{x}, \var{y})}, as defined by the platform C library. +Note that the Python expression \code{\var{x} \%\ \var{y}} may not return +the same result. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{frexp}{x} |