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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 60c570b..9f5255a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ represented as a plain integer, in which case they yield a long integer. Integer literals with an ``'L'`` or ``'l'`` suffix yield long integers (``'L'`` is preferred because ``1l`` looks too much like eleven!). Numeric literals containing a decimal point or an exponent sign yield floating point numbers. -Appending ``'j'`` or ``'J'`` to a numeric literal yields a complex number with a -zero real part. A complex numeric literal is the sum of a real and an imaginary -part. +Appending ``'j'`` or ``'J'`` to a numeric literal yields an imaginary number +(a complex number with a zero real part) which you can add to an integer or +float to get a complex number with real and imaginary parts. .. index:: single: arithmetic |