From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:10:47 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-41205: Document Decimal power 0 to the 0 (GH-21386) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.5~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dac8a3a15647d016842e2ae7284cefa27ce5e838;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-41205: Document Decimal power 0 to the 0 (GH-21386) Co-authored-by: Mark Dickinson (cherry picked from commit 10e466448f67850ed7bb2e2a4e7f017f2b050cad) Co-authored-by: Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy (శ్రీనివాస్ రెడ్డి తాటిపర్తి) --- diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst index 8169bd358c70..38173f18ca66 100644 --- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst @@ -1357,6 +1357,9 @@ In addition to the three supplied contexts, new contexts can be created with the The rounding mode of the context is used. Results are always correctly-rounded in the Python version. + ``Decimal(0) ** Decimal(0)`` results in ``InvalidOperation``, and if ``InvalidOperation`` + is not trapped, then results in ``Decimal('NaN')``. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 The C module computes :meth:`power` in terms of the correctly-rounded :meth:`exp` and :meth:`ln` functions. The result is well-defined but