[Python-checkins] bpo-41205: Document Decimal power 0 to the 0 (GH-21386)
Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy (శ్రీనివాస్ రెడ్డి తాటిపర్తి)
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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/10e466448f67850ed7bb2e2a4e7f017f2b050cad
commit: 10e466448f67850ed7bb2e2a4e7f017f2b050cad
branch: master
author: Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy (శ్రీనివాస్ రెడ్డి తాటిపర్తి) <thatiparthysreenivas at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-07-19T13:03:43+02:00
summary:
bpo-41205: Document Decimal power 0 to the 0 (GH-21386)
Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com>
files:
M Doc/library/decimal.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
index 38ad04177c5e8..e194649e30d85 100644
--- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
@@ -1357,6 +1357,9 @@ In addition to the three supplied contexts, new contexts can be created with the
The rounding mode of the context is used. Results are always correctly-rounded
in the Python version.
+ ``Decimal(0) ** Decimal(0)`` results in ``InvalidOperation``, and if ``InvalidOperation``
+ is not trapped, then results in ``Decimal('NaN')``.
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
The C module computes :meth:`power` in terms of the correctly-rounded
:meth:`exp` and :meth:`ln` functions. The result is well-defined but
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