More document tweaks for searchsorted.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/add_newdocs.py b/numpy/add_newdocs.py
index 6b48acbdc..86773335b 100644
--- a/numpy/add_newdocs.py
+++ b/numpy/add_newdocs.py
@@ -877,10 +877,10 @@ add_newdoc('numpy.core.multiarray', 'ndarray', ('searchsorted',
 
            a[j] < key <= a[i] for all j < i,
 
-    If such an index does not exist, a.size() is used. The result is such that
-    if the key were to be inserted into a in the slot before the index i, then
-    the order of a would be preserved and i would be the smallest index with
-    that property.
+    If such an index does not exist, a.size() is used. Consequently, i is the
+    index of the first item in a that is >= key. If the key were to be inserted
+    into a in the slot before the index i, then the order of a would be
+    preserved and i would be the smallest index with that property.
 
     The method call
 
@@ -891,10 +891,10 @@ add_newdoc('numpy.core.multiarray', 'ndarray', ('searchsorted',
 
            a[j] <= key < a[i] for all j < i,
 
-    If such an index does not exist, a.size() is used. The result is such that
-    if the key were to be inserted into a in the slot before the index i, then
-    the order of a would be preserved and i would be the largest index with
-    that property.
+    If such an index does not exist, a.size() is used. Consequently, i is the
+    index of the first item in a that is > key. If the key were to be inserted
+    into a in the slot before the index i, then the order of a would be
+    preserved and i would be the largest index with that property.
 
     """))