https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/24c570bbb82a7cb70576c253a73390accfa... commit: 24c570bbb82a7cb70576c253a73390accfa7ed78 branch: 3.7 author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> committer: GitHub <noreply@github.com> date: 2020-02-23T14:42:57+01:00 summary: bpo-39576: Clarify the word size for the 32-bit build. (GH-18616) (#18617) (cherry picked from commit b76518d43fb82ed9e5d27025d18c90a23d525c90) Authored-by: Stefan Krah <skrah@bytereef.org> files: M Doc/library/decimal.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst index 2a51429bdff5c..4e640cc695990 100644 --- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst @@ -2155,8 +2155,8 @@ RAM and expect 10 simultaneous operands using a maximum of 500MB each:: >>> import sys >>> - >>> # Maximum number of digits for a single operand using 500MB in 8 byte words - >>> # with 19 (9 for the 32-bit version) digits per word: + >>> # Maximum number of digits for a single operand using 500MB in 8-byte words + >>> # with 19 digits per word (4-byte and 9 digits for the 32-bit build): >>> maxdigits = 19 * ((500 * 1024**2) // 8) >>> >>> # Check that this works: