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diff --git a/numpy/doc/basics.py b/numpy/doc/basics.py index 7946c6432..8633984cb 100644 --- a/numpy/doc/basics.py +++ b/numpy/doc/basics.py @@ -314,8 +314,8 @@ compiler's ``long double`` available as ``np.longdouble`` (and ``np.clongdouble`` for the complex numbers). You can find out what your numpy provides with ``np.finfo(np.longdouble)``. -NumPy does not provide a dtype with more precision than C -``long double``\\s; in particular, the 128-bit IEEE quad precision +NumPy does not provide a dtype with more precision than C's +``long double``; in particular, the 128-bit IEEE quad precision data type (FORTRAN's ``REAL*16``\\) is not available. For efficient memory alignment, ``np.longdouble`` is usually stored |