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Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 23:23:38 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [doc] Clarify exception in `multiprocessing.cpu_count` (GH-23660) (GH-28434)
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[doc] Clarify exception in `multiprocessing.cpu_count` (GH-23660) (GH-28434)

Previous wording didn't explain the slightly unintuitive behavior.

Co-authored-by: kj <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 24dbe30f8df80740704db3743d071b3218d1276e)

Co-authored-by: Emmanuel Arias <eamanu@yaerobi.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index 952a5b40a0d1..1fb6199d0d05 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -951,7 +951,8 @@ Miscellaneous
    use.  The number of usable CPUs can be obtained with
    ``len(os.sched_getaffinity(0))``
 
-   May raise :exc:`NotImplementedError`.
+   When the number of CPUs cannot be determined a :exc:`NotImplementedError`
+   is raised.
 
    .. seealso::
       :func:`os.cpu_count`