From 441609466b308b8a127f6b9bb35dc9804224541d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Facundo Batista <facundobatista@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 02:03:36 +0000
Subject: SF bug 1060644. Better explanation of min() and max() methods. Thanks
 Raymond Hettinger and Tim Peters.

---
 Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex b/Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex
index d4126ac..dfa212a 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libdecimal.tex
@@ -355,13 +355,17 @@ also have a number of specialized methods:
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{max}{other\optional{, context}}
-  Like \samp{max(self, other)} but returns \constant{NaN} if either is a
-  \constant{NaN}.  Applies the context rounding rule before returning.
+  Like \samp{max(self, other)} except that the context rounding rule
+  is applied before returning and that \constant{NaN} values are
+  either signalled or ignored (depending on the context and whether
+  they are signaling or quiet).
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{min}{other\optional{, context}}
-  Like \samp{min(self, other)} but returns \constant{NaN} if either is a
-  \constant{NaN}.  Applies the context rounding rule before returning.
+  Like \samp{min(self, other)} except that the context rounding rule
+  is applied before returning and that \constant{NaN} values are
+  either signalled or ignored (depending on the context and whether
+  they are signaling or quiet).
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{normalize}{\optional{context}}
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