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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2000-09-16 03:54:24 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2000-09-16 03:54:24 (GMT)
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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
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@@ -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}