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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients JBernardo, docs@python, mark.dickinson, vajrasky
Date 2013-12-09.12:04:29
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Thanks.  It's inaccurate to say that a float is returned in general, though:  for most builtin numeric types, what's returned has the same type as its input.  So rounding a Decimal to two places gives a Decimal on output, etc.  (That's already explained in the next paragraph.)
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