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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-07-29 13:56:56 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2010-07-29 13:56:56 (GMT)
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@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ approximated by ``3602879701896397 / 2 ** 55``. Since all of these decimal
values share the same approximation, any one of them could be displayed
while still preserving the invariant ``eval(repr(x)) == x``.
-Historically, the Python prompt and built-in :func:`repr` function would chose
+Historically, the Python prompt and built-in :func:`repr` function would choose
the one with 17 significant digits, ``0.10000000000000001``. Starting with
Python 3.1, Python (on most systems) is now able to choose the shortest of
these and simply display ``0.1``.