Bring decimal a bit closer to the spec for Reals.

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Raymond Hettinger 2008-02-12 01:18:03 +00:00
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@ -51,10 +51,7 @@ Inexact.register(float)
## Notes on Decimal and it how relates to the numeric tower
## --------------------------------------------------------
## Decimal is Real except that it does not support the real and imag properties
## or the conjugate() and complex() methods. If those get defined at some
## point, they cannot use the default implementation which would be sensitive
## to decimal.Context and could produce different answers at different times.
## Decimal is Real except that it does not support rich comparisons.
##
## Decimal has some of the characteristics of Integrals. It provides
## logical operations but not as operators. The logical operations only apply