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-rwxr-xr-xLib/timeit.py3
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diff --git a/Lib/timeit.py b/Lib/timeit.py
index c0362bc..6c3ec01 100755
--- a/Lib/timeit.py
+++ b/Lib/timeit.py
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ argument in quotes and using leading spaces. Multiple -s options are
treated similarly.
If -n is not given, a suitable number of loops is calculated by trying
-successive powers of 10 until the total time is at least 0.2 seconds.
+increasing numbers from the sequence 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, ... until the
+total time is at least 0.2 seconds.
Note: there is a certain baseline overhead associated with executing a
pass statement. It differs between versions. The code here doesn't try