From 23985376318b2a9bea31da242d3488a29f59395d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Udoh Jeremiah <udohjeremiah@icloud.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 04:38:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] clear info on the exponent function (#46815)

Co-authored-by: Daniel Karrasch <daniel.karrasch@posteo.de>
---
 base/math.jl | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/base/math.jl b/base/math.jl
index 09ded65bcddb84..968eb0eee8bc01 100644
--- a/base/math.jl
+++ b/base/math.jl
@@ -930,18 +930,27 @@ end
 ldexp(x::Float16, q::Integer) = Float16(ldexp(Float32(x), q))
 
 """
-    exponent(x::AbstractFloat) -> Int
+    exponent(x) -> Int
 
-Get the exponent of a normalized floating-point number.
 Returns the largest integer `y` such that `2^y ≤ abs(x)`.
+For a normalized floating-point number `x`, this corresponds to the exponent of `x`.
 
 # Examples
 ```jldoctest
+julia> exponent(8)
+3
+
+julia> exponent(64//1)
+6
+
 julia> exponent(6.5)
 2
 
 julia> exponent(16.0)
 4
+
+julia> exponent(3.142e-4)
+-12
 ```
 """
 function exponent(x::T) where T<:IEEEFloat