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bpo-43729: Clarify comment in tutorial example (GH-25191)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/07797121cc290ede0b3d3cf02068f3d993cddd15
commit: 07797121cc290ede0b3d3cf02068f3d993cddd15
branch: main
author: Erlend Egeberg Aasland <erlend.aasland@innova.no>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2021-05-14T12:09:08-07:00
summary:

bpo-43729: Clarify comment in tutorial example (GH-25191)

files:
M Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
index 2a1666128a2015..4613cf76c53099 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ operator; to calculate the remainder you can use ``%``::
5
>>> 17 % 3 # the % operator returns the remainder of the division
2
- >>> 5 * 3 + 2 # result * divisor + remainder
+ >>> 5 * 3 + 2 # floored quotient * divisor + remainder
17

With Python, it is possible to use the ``**`` operator to calculate powers [#]_::

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