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diff --git a/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod b/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod
index 36bd00da28..08aae5e919 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/BN_new.pod
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ If B<a> is NULL, nothing is done.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
BN_new() and BN_secure_new()
-return a pointer to the B<BIGNUM>. If the allocation fails,
+return a pointer to the B<BIGNUM> initialised to the value 0.
+If the allocation fails,
they return B<NULL> and set an error code that can be obtained
by L<ERR_get_error(3)>.