Backport PEP 3141 to 2.6

[jyasskin]

BPO	1689
Nosy	@gvanrossum, @facundobatista
Files	backport_numbers.patch backport_numbers_with_docs.patch

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[jyasskin]

This includes r50877 (just the complex_pow part), r56649, r56652,
r56715, r57296, r57302, r57359, r57361, r57372, r57738, r57739, r58017,
r58039, r58040, and r59390.

[facundobatista]

The patch applies cleanly, all test cases are ok.

To be commited, documentation should be created for this, would you
please take care of it?

Also, some lines for NEWS will be welcomed.

Thank you!!

[jyasskin]

I've added some rudimentary documentation and a line for NEWS. Before
the docs for this patch can really be finished, we'll need to figure out
how we want to document ABCs. I'll think about that and probably send
some more patches, but I don't think that should block the implementation.

[jyasskin]

I've committed this as r59671, except that round() returns a float again
to make sure we keep compatibility. Let me know if you find anything
that needs fixing.

[gvanrossum]

Why can't this be closed?

[jyasskin]

It can. :)