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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst index f41be3a..b6e04ff 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ display :: >>> 0.1 0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625 -instead! The Python prompt uses the builtin :func:`repr` function to obtain a +instead! The Python prompt uses the built-in :func:`repr` function to obtain a string version of everything it displays. For floats, ``repr(float)`` rounds the true decimal value to 17 significant digits, giving :: @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ thing in all languages that support your hardware's floating-point arithmetic (although some languages may not *display* the difference by default, or in all output modes). -Python's builtin :func:`str` function produces only 12 significant digits, and +Python's built-in :func:`str` function produces only 12 significant digits, and you may wish to use that instead. It's unusual for ``eval(str(x))`` to reproduce *x*, but the output may be more pleasant to look at:: |