https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/98d3f2bc6e2b944f5fba1e16b0ca7f64459aa5e5 commit: 98d3f2bc6e2b944f5fba1e16b0ca7f64459aa5e5 branch: 3.12 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: erlend-aasland <[email protected]> date: 2025-01-04T17:45:19Z summary:
[3.12] gh-126719: Clarify math.fmod docs (GH-127741) (#128492) (cherry picked from commit f28d471fbe99f9eaac05d60ed40da47b0b56fe86) Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Bénédikt Tran <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/math.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/math.rst b/Doc/library/math.rst index fb8527128a2555..0648293bfa7b89 100644 --- a/Doc/library/math.rst +++ b/Doc/library/math.rst @@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ Number-theoretic and representation functions .. function:: fmod(x, y) - Return ``fmod(x, y)``, as defined by the platform C library. Note that the + Return the floating-point remainder of ``x / y``, + as defined by the platform C library function ``fmod(x, y)``. Note that the Python expression ``x % y`` may not return the same result. The intent of the C standard is that ``fmod(x, y)`` be exactly (mathematically; to infinite precision) equal to ``x - n*y`` for some integer *n* such that the result has _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
