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diff --git a/Doc/library/cmath.rst b/Doc/library/cmath.rst
index 4469573ccf..2c1f1cfab5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/cmath.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/cmath.rst
@@ -28,15 +28,15 @@ Complex coordinates
Complex numbers can be expressed by two important coordinate systems.
Python's :class:`complex` type uses rectangular coordinates where a number
-on the complex plain is defined by two floats, the real part and the imaginary
+on the complex plane is defined by two floats, the real part and the imaginary
part.
Definition::
z = x + 1j * y
- x := real(z)
- y := imag(z)
+ x := z.real
+ y := z.imag
In engineering the polar coordinate system is popular for complex numbers. In
polar coordinates a complex number is defined by the radius *r* and the phase
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ The module also defines two mathematical constants:
.. data:: pi
- The mathematical constant *pi*, as a float.
+ The mathematical constant *π*, as a float.
.. data:: e