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authorJames E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org>2021-05-20 23:35:02 -0400
committerJames E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org>2021-05-31 09:49:13 -0400
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Improve grammar
Per suggestion by oodler577 in https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/18736. With correction reported as needed by grinnz in https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/18806.
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@@ -128,11 +128,11 @@ used may lead to breakage of some of the above rules.
=head1 Flavors of Perl numeric operations
-Perl operations which take a numeric argument treat that argument in one
-of four different ways: they may force it to one of the integer/floating/
-string formats, or they may behave differently depending on the format of
-the operand. Forcing a numeric value to a particular format does not
-change the number stored in the value.
+Perl operations which take a numeric argument treat that argument in one of
+four different ways: they may force it to one of the integer, floating, or
+string formats; or they may behave differently depending on the format of the
+operand. Forcing a numeric value to a particular format does not change the
+number stored in the value.
All the operators which need an argument in the integer format treat the
argument as in modular arithmetic, e.g., C<mod 2**32> on a 32-bit