Grammar mistake in Decimal documentation

[zacherates]

BPO	13730
Nosy	@terryjreedy
Files	plural.diff

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title = 'Grammar mistake in Decimal documentation'
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[zacherates]

In the sentance: "In contrast, numbers like 1.1 and 2.2 do not have an exact representations in binary floating point." there is a mismatch in number between "an" and "representations". I suggest removing "an" to make the whole thing plural.

A patch is attached.

[python-dev]

New changeset 1e65183337ff by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '2.7':
closes bpo-13730
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1e65183337ff

New changeset bac18092c1dc by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.2':
bpo-13730 grammar fix
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bac18092c1dc

New changeset e6b0d9d209f2 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'default':
Merge with 3.2 bpo-13730 grammar fix
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e6b0d9d209f2

[terryjreedy]

Thanks for the report.