[docs] [issue25735] math.factorial doc should mention integer return type
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Nov 28 09:29:08 EST 2015
Mark Dickinson added the comment:
[Terry]
>>> factorial(decimal.Decimal(5.2))
120
Yep, that's definitely wrong. If we want to behave the same way as for float, we should accept only integral Decimal values. (Though I'm not much of a fan of the float behaviour: I would have preferred math.factorial not to accept floats at all.)
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