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Subject: [3.14] gh-140065: Lexical analysis: Correct note about leading zeros in floating... 
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[3.14] gh-140065: Lexical analysis: Correct note about leading zeros in floating point numbers (GH-140066) (GH-140167)

(cherry picked from commit 1624c646b045df15ba41d17ff03231978b80c3ff)

Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <89152624+StanFromIreland@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index dfa340763d92..969da1269063 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -1308,8 +1308,8 @@ The parts are separated by a decimal point, ``.``::
    2.71828
    4.0
 
-Unlike in integer literals, leading zeros are allowed in the numeric parts.
-For example, ``077.010`` is legal, and denotes the same number as ``77.10``.
+Unlike in integer literals, leading zeros are allowed.
+For example, ``077.010`` is legal, and denotes the same number as ``77.01``.
 
 As in integer literals, single underscores may occur between digits to help
 readability::