[issue10787] [random.gammavariate] Add the expression of the distribution in a comprehensive form for random.gammavariate

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:

>From reading the Wikipedia article, I might conclude that beta = 1/theta, but from reading random.py, beta=theta. I think this much should be clarified, but without giving the formula in a hard to read text form. Perhaps the random doc should give reference to the much more complete numpy.random (and Wikipedia and/or Mathworld) entries rather than merely 'any statistics text' (many of which will not describe all).

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