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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2008-09-13 02:11:51 (GMT)
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#3288: Document as_integer_ratio
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@@ -449,7 +449,18 @@ Notes:
Additional Methods on Float
---------------------------
-The float type has some additional methods to support conversion to
+The float type has some additional methods.
+
+.. method:: float.as_integer_ratio()
+
+ Return a pair of integers whose ratio is exactly equal to the
+ original float and with a positive denominator. Raises
+ :exc:`OverflowError` on infinities and a :exc:`ValueError` on
+ NaNs.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 2.6
+
+Two methods support conversion to
and from hexadecimal strings. Since Python's floats are stored
internally as binary numbers, converting a float to or from a
*decimal* string usually involves a small rounding error. In