[docs] A suggestion to change decimal module docstring

[Mark Dickinson]

Done in r81951.

Mark

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> wrote:
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> Georg
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> Am 12.06.2010 11:05, schrieb Mark Dickinson:
>> Suggested replacement text:
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>> [...] expectations that are at odds with binary floating point (for instance,
>> in binary floating point, 1.00 % 0.1 gives 0.09999999999999995 instead of 0.0;
>> Decimal('1.00') % Decimal('0.1') returns the expected Decimal('0.00')).
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>> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
>> <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Not worth a tracker entry, so I am just sending this to docs and Mark.
>>>
>>> I find current "(for instance, in binary floating point, 1.00 % 0.1
>>> gives 0.09999999999999995 instead of the expected Decimal("0.00")
>>> returned by decimal floating point)" in the introduction a bit unclear
>>> because neither Decimal class nor it's constructor taking a string has
>>> been introduced by that point.  I think it is better to just use 0.00
>>> for the "expected" value.
>>>
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