From: Mark Dickinson <mdickinson@enthought.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 15:30:04 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Fix misleading documentation for math.exp. (#951)
X-Git-Tag: v3.7.0a1~1014
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Fix misleading documentation for math.exp. (#951)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/math.rst b/Doc/library/math.rst
index da2b8cc58627..b1f56929c3b4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/math.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/math.rst
@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ Power and logarithmic functions
 
 .. function:: exp(x)
 
-   Return ``e**x``.
-
+   Return e raised to the power *x*, where e = 2.718281... is the base
+   of natural logarithms.
 
 .. function:: expm1(x)