#12120: Improve documentation of numerical_approx()
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       Reporter:  saraedum       |         Owner:  mvngu       
           Type:  enhancement    |        Status:  needs_review
       Priority:  trivial        |     Milestone:  sage-5.3    
      Component:  documentation  |    Resolution:              
       Keywords:  beginner       |   Work issues:              
Report Upstream:  N/A            |     Reviewers:              
        Authors:  Julian Rueth   |     Merged in:              
   Dependencies:                 |      Stopgaps:              
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Changes (by {'newvalue': u'Julian Rueth', 'oldvalue': u'Julian R\xfcth'}):

  * keywords:  => beginner
  * status:  needs_work => needs_review
  * author:  Julian Rüth => Julian Rueth


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:8 eviatarbach]:
 > Yes, I'll create another patch.
 >
 > However, could you change the wording from "numerical instability"? This
 suggests there is something wrong. I like how Julian Rüth explained it:
 "This approximates both pi and 3 with two bits of precision and then
 computes their difference".

 Are you happy with the wording now?

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