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Issue 15265: document the exception raised for invalid sample sizes.

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@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ Functions for sequences:
argument. This is especially fast and space efficient for sampling from a large
population: ``sample(range(10000000), 60)``.
If the sample size is larger than the population size, a :exc:``ValueError``
is raised.
The following functions generate specific real-valued distributions. Function
parameters are named after the corresponding variables in the distribution's
equation, as used in common mathematical practice; most of these equations can