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  r75943 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-29 11:09:09 +0000 (Thu, 29 Oct 2009) | 1 line

  Fix duplicate test numbers in extra.decTest
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  r75944 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-29 12:04:00 +0000 (Thu, 29 Oct 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #7233:  A number of two-argument Decimal methods were failing to
  accept ints and longs for the second argument.
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  r75945 | mark.dickinson | 2009-10-29 12:11:18 +0000 (Thu, 29 Oct 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #7233:  Fix Decimal.shift and Decimal.rotate methods for
  arguments with more digits than the current context precision.
  Bug reported by Stefan Krah.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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 Library
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+- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
+  sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument.  Also
+  fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer
+  than the current precision) in shift and rotate.
+
 - Issue #4750: Store the basename of the original filename in the gzip FNAME
   header as required by RFC 1952.