[issue14164] my little contribution to the docs

poq added the comment: It is generally considered more correct to write "floating-point number", because "floating-point" is a compound adjective here. The hyphen clarifies that it should be parsed as ((floating point) number) instead of (floating (point number)). However, in practice "float

[issue14164] my little contribution to the docs

Matthew Johnson added the comment: I think he's right to fix those "mistakes". Just see the first sentence @ http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html#floating-point-arithmetic-issues-and-limitations It reads: "Floating-point numbers are represented in [...]" So as you can see, there

[issue14164] my little contribution to the docs

Eli Bendersky added the comment: John, thanks for the contribution, however this is not a valid fix. See the Wikipedia page for floating point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point No dash! There is no need to go over the Python docs fixing such "mistakes". If you have time to cont

[issue14164] my little contribution to the docs

Petri Lehtinen added the comment: See also #13868 by Retro. -- nosy: +petri.lehtinen ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue14164] my little contribution to the docs

Changes by Florent Xicluna : -- stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue14164] my little contribution to the docs

New submission from John Napster : This patch fixes some small grammar things in the docs. Hope you like my contribution. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: patch.diff keywords: patch messages: 154688 nosy: docs@python, joenapnap priority: normal severity: normal