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  r58211 | facundo.batista | 2007-09-19 19:53:25 +0200 (Wed, 19 Sep 2007) | 4 lines


  Issue #1772851.  Optimization of __hash__ to behave better for big big
  numbers.
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  r58216 | raymond.hettinger | 2007-09-20 05:03:43 +0200 (Thu, 20 Sep 2007) | 1 line

  Fit nits
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  r58217 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-20 10:44:59 +0200 (Thu, 20 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  alternate -> alternative.
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  r58218 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-20 18:06:07 +0200 (Thu, 20 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  Patch #1541463: optimize performance of cgi.FieldStorage operations.
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  r58219 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-20 18:45:27 +0200 (Thu, 20 Sep 2007) | 2 lines

  #1176: document that string methods don't take keyword args.
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  r58220 | thomas.wouters | 2007-09-20 19:35:10 +0200 (Thu, 20 Sep 2007) | 4 lines


  Try harder to stay within the 79-column limit. There's still two places that go (way) over, but those are harder to fix without suffering in readability.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
index bbac0d4..ee4aeec 100644
--- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
@@ -977,7 +977,7 @@
 
 The usual approach to working with decimals is to create :class:`Decimal`
 instances and then apply arithmetic operations which take place within the
-current context for the active thread.  An alternate approach is to use context
+current context for the active thread.  An alternative approach is to use context
 methods for calculating within a specific context.  The methods are similar to
 those for the :class:`Decimal` class and are only briefly recounted here.