Where are the math functions?

Huaiyu Zhu hzhu at rocket.knowledgetrack.com
Mon Jun 12 16:09:16 EDT 2000


On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:01:57 -0700, Russell E. Owen
<owen at astro.washington.edu> wrote: 

>The random module (which is available on all platforms) offers beta and 
>gamma functions. I can't comment on incomplete gamma, bessel and erf. I 
>found the information about the random module in "Python Essential 
>Reference" by David Beazley; the index lists beta and gamma, but not the 
>others.

As I said

> Yes there is random.gamma but that's generating random numbers not the gamma
> function.


Anyway as Phil Austin mentioned the Cephes library is excellent and I'm
adding those into MatPy.  Thanks Phil.

Huaiyu



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