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diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst index 77769cd..a482417 100644 --- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst @@ -1215,9 +1215,12 @@ In addition to the three supplied contexts, new contexts can be created with the - at least one of ``x`` or ``y`` must be nonzero - ``modulo`` must be nonzero and have at most 'precision' digits - The result of ``Context.power(x, y, modulo)`` is identical to the result - that would be obtained by computing ``(x**y) % modulo`` with unbounded - precision, but is computed more efficiently. It is always exact. + The value resulting from ``Context.power(x, y, modulo)`` is + equal to the value that would be obtained by computing ``(x**y) + % modulo`` with unbounded precision, but is computed more + efficiently. The exponent of the result is zero, regardless of + the exponents of ``x``, ``y`` and ``modulo``. The result is + always exact. .. method:: quantize(x, y) |