sympy/sympy — pull request #1769 by prasoon2211 (2013-02-11 13:15:24+00:00)
Title: Binomials with non integer powers can now be expanded

Issue [3368](http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=3368)

Before:

```
>>> s = (a + b)**0.5
>>> s.expand()
(a + b)**0.5
```

Now,
```
>>> s = (a + b)**0.5
>>> s.expand(nonint=True)
Piecewise((b**0.5*(0.01611328125*a**7/b**7 - 0.0205078125*a**6/b**6 + 0.02734375*a**5/b**5 - 0.0390625*a**4/b**4 + 0.0625*a**3/b**3 - 0.125*a**2/b**2 + 0.5*a/b + 1) + O(a**6), Abs(a/b) < 1), (a**0.5*(1 + 0.5*b/a - 0.125*b**2/a**2 + 0.0625*b**3/a**3 - 0.0390625*b**4/a**4 + 0.02734375*b**5/a**5 - 0.0205078125*b**6/a**6 + 0.01611328125*b**7/a**7) + O(b**6), Abs(b/a) < 1))
```

A new hint, `nonint` is used here.

Also, anyone has problems understanding the tests, please let me know and I will clarify the issue.