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-rw-r--r--docs/miscellaneous.rst2
-rw-r--r--docs/units-and-global-variables.rst2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/miscellaneous.rst b/docs/miscellaneous.rst
index 01a7a04c..f972532c 100644
--- a/docs/miscellaneous.rst
+++ b/docs/miscellaneous.rst
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Global Variables
- ``now`` (``uint``): current block timestamp (alias for ``block.timestamp``)
- ``tx.gasprice`` (``uint``): gas price of the transaction
- ``tx.origin`` (``address``): sender of the transaction (full call chain)
-- ``sha3(...) returns (bytes32)``: compute the Ethereum-SHA3 hash of the (tightly packed) arguments
+- ``sha3(...) returns (bytes32)``: compute the Ethereum-SHA3 (KECCAK-256) hash of the (tightly packed) arguments
- ``sha256(...) returns (bytes32)``: compute the SHA256 hash of the (tightly packed) arguments
- ``ripemd160(...) returns (bytes20)``: compute RIPEMD of 256 the (tightly packed) arguments
- ``ecrecover(bytes32, uint8, bytes32, bytes32) returns (address)``: recover address associated with the public key from elliptic curve signature
diff --git a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst
index 40cf7dac..8b6ffda7 100644
--- a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst
+++ b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Mathematical and Cryptographic Functions
``mulmod(uint x, uint y, uint k) returns (uint)``:
compute ``(x * y) % k`` where the multiplication is performed with arbitrary precision and does not wrap around at ``2**256``.
``sha3(...) returns (bytes32)``:
- compute the Ethereum-SHA-3 hash of the (tightly packed) arguments
+ compute the Ethereum-SHA-3 (KECCAK-256) hash of the (tightly packed) arguments
``sha256(...) returns (bytes32)``:
compute the SHA-256 hash of the (tightly packed) arguments
``ripemd160(...) returns (bytes20)``: