diff -r e12b8d3a3d03 Doc/library/time.rst
--- a/Doc/library/time.rst	Thu Jan 26 00:31:49 2012 +0100
+++ b/Doc/library/time.rst	Thu Jan 26 00:55:11 2012 +0100
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
   systems, the clock "ticks" only 50 or 100 times a second.
 
 * On the other hand, the precision of :func:`time` and :func:`sleep` is better
-  than their Unix equivalents: times are expressed as floating point numbers,
+  than their Unix equivalents: times are expressed as floating-point numbers,
   :func:`time` returns the most accurate time available (using Unix
   :c:func:`gettimeofday` where available), and :func:`sleep` will accept a time
   with a nonzero fraction (Unix :c:func:`select` is used to implement this, where