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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Yes, I'm making it up, but it's still true.

I don't think there's any reason to be hypothetical:

In [149]: d
Out[149]: Decimal('2')

In [150]: d.sqrt() * d.sqrt() == d
Out[150]: False

:-)

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