[Python-checkins] r65187 - python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst

[raymond.hettinger]

Author: raymond.hettinger
Date: Tue Jul 22 20:54:02 2008
New Revision: 65187

Log:
Remove out-of-date section on Exact/Inexact.

Modified:
   python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
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--- python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst	Tue Jul 22 20:54:02 2008
@@ -1324,14 +1324,6 @@
 all, and only exists to allow checking if an object is a number by
 doing ``isinstance(obj, Number)``.
 
-Numbers are further divided into :class:`Exact` and :class:`Inexact`.
-Exact numbers can represent values precisely and operations never
-round off the results or introduce tiny errors that may break the
-commutativity and associativity properties; inexact numbers may
-perform such rounding or introduce small errors.  Integers, long
-integers, and rational numbers are exact, while floating-point
-and complex numbers are inexact.
-
 :class:`Complex` is a subclass of :class:`Number`.  Complex numbers
 can undergo the basic operations of addition, subtraction,
 multiplication, division, and exponentiation, and you can retrieve the