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[3.14] gh-130102: drop "require numeric arguments" from pow() docs (GH-137456) #137536

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Expand Up @@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
``pow(base, exp) % mod``). The two-argument form ``pow(base, exp)`` is
equivalent to using the power operator: ``base**exp``.

The arguments must have numeric types. With mixed operand types, the
When arguments are builtin numeric types with mixed operand types, the
coercion rules for binary arithmetic operators apply. For :class:`int`
operands, the result has the same type as the operands (after coercion)
unless the second argument is negative; in that case, all arguments are
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