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[3.13] gh-121905: Consistently use "floating-point" instead of "floating point" (GH-121907) (GH-122012)

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@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ An explanation of some terminology and conventions is in order.
systems, the clock "ticks" only 50 or 100 times a second.
* On the other hand, the precision of :func:`.time` and :func:`sleep` is better
than their Unix equivalents: times are expressed as floating point numbers,
than their Unix equivalents: times are expressed as floating-point numbers,
:func:`.time` returns the most accurate time available (using Unix
:c:func:`!gettimeofday` where available), and :func:`sleep` will accept a time
with a nonzero fraction (Unix :c:func:`!select` is used to implement this, where
@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ Functions
This is the inverse function of :func:`localtime`. Its argument is the
:class:`struct_time` or full 9-tuple (since the dst flag is needed; use ``-1``
as the dst flag if it is unknown) which expresses the time in *local* time, not
UTC. It returns a floating point number, for compatibility with :func:`.time`.
UTC. It returns a floating-point number, for compatibility with :func:`.time`.
If the input value cannot be represented as a valid time, either
:exc:`OverflowError` or :exc:`ValueError` will be raised (which depends on
whether the invalid value is caught by Python or the underlying C libraries).
@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ Functions
.. function:: sleep(secs)
Suspend execution of the calling thread for the given number of seconds.
The argument may be a floating point number to indicate a more precise sleep
The argument may be a floating-point number to indicate a more precise sleep
time.
If the sleep is interrupted by a signal and no exception is raised by the
@ -665,13 +665,13 @@ Functions
.. function:: time() -> float
Return the time in seconds since the epoch_ as a floating point
Return the time in seconds since the epoch_ as a floating-point
number. The handling of `leap seconds`_ is platform dependent.
On Windows and most Unix systems, the leap seconds are not counted towards
the time in seconds since the epoch_. This is commonly referred to as `Unix
time <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time>`_.
Note that even though the time is always returned as a floating point
Note that even though the time is always returned as a floating-point
number, not all systems provide time with a better precision than 1 second.
While this function normally returns non-decreasing values, it can return a
lower value than a previous call if the system clock has been set back