| Georg Brandl | 116aa62 | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | |
| 2 | .. _numeric: |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ******************************** |
| 5 | Numeric and Mathematical Modules |
| 6 | ******************************** |
| 7 | |
| 8 | The modules described in this chapter provide numeric and math-related functions |
| Christian Heimes | 072c0f1 | 2008-01-03 23:01:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | and data types. The :mod:`numbers` module defines an abstract hierarchy of |
| 10 | numeric types. The :mod:`math` and :mod:`cmath` modules contain various |
| Stefan Krah | 1919b7e | 2012-03-21 18:25:23 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | mathematical functions for floating-point and complex numbers. The :mod:`decimal` |
| 12 | module supports exact representations of decimal numbers, using arbitrary precision |
| 13 | arithmetic. |
| Georg Brandl | 116aa62 | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | |
| 15 | The following modules are documented in this chapter: |
| 16 | |
| 17 | |
| 18 | .. toctree:: |
| 19 | |
| Christian Heimes | 072c0f1 | 2008-01-03 23:01:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | numbers.rst |
| Georg Brandl | 116aa62 | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | math.rst |
| 22 | cmath.rst |
| 23 | decimal.rst |
| Raymond Hettinger | 53dbe39 | 2008-02-12 20:03:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | fractions.rst |
| Georg Brandl | 116aa62 | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | random.rst |
| Larry Hastings | f5e987b | 2013-10-19 11:50:09 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | statistics.rst |