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r78312 | mark.dickinson | 2010-02-22 15:40:28 +0000 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 1 line
Clarify description of three-argument pow for Decimal types: the exponent of the result is always 0.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
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--- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
@@ -1218,9 +1218,12 @@
- at least one of ``x`` or ``y`` must be nonzero
- ``modulo`` must be nonzero and have at most 'precision' digits
- The result of ``Context.power(x, y, modulo)`` is identical to the result
- that would be obtained by computing ``(x**y) % modulo`` with unbounded
- precision, but is computed more efficiently. It is always exact.
+ The value resulting from ``Context.power(x, y, modulo)`` is
+ equal to the value that would be obtained by computing ``(x**y)
+ % modulo`` with unbounded precision, but is computed more
+ efficiently. The exponent of the result is zero, regardless of
+ the exponents of ``x``, ``y`` and ``modulo``. The result is
+ always exact.
.. method:: quantize(x, y)