Commit 9973ee86 authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

Remove out-of-date section on Exact/Inexact.

parent 5aa0b4d7
......@@ -1324,14 +1324,6 @@ The most general ABC is :class:`Number`. It defines no operations at
all, and only exists to allow checking if an object is a number by
doing ``isinstance(obj, Number)``.
Numbers are further divided into :class:`Exact` and :class:`Inexact`.
Exact numbers can represent values precisely and operations never
round off the results or introduce tiny errors that may break the
commutativity and associativity properties; inexact numbers may
perform such rounding or introduce small errors. Integers, long
integers, and rational numbers are exact, while floating-point
and complex numbers are inexact.
:class:`Complex` is a subclass of :class:`Number`. Complex numbers
can undergo the basic operations of addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, and exponentiation, and you can retrieve the
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