Merged revisions 69131,69140-69141,69155 via svnmerge from
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r69131 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-31 04:26:02 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
Text edits and markup fixes
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r69140 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 17:52:03 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
PyErr_BadInternalCall() raises a SystemError, not TypeError #5112
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r69141 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 21:01:48 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
fix indentation
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r69155 | david.goodger | 2009-01-31 23:53:46 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
markup fix
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
index 6ff2160..29c7a66 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
machines today (November 2000) use IEEE-754 floating point arithmetic, and
almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 "double precision". 754
doubles contain 53 bits of precision, so on input the computer strives to
-convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2\*\**N* where *J* is
+convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2**\ *N* where *J* is
an integer containing exactly 53 bits. Rewriting ::
1 / 10 ~= J / (2**N)