| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | \chapter{Miscellaneous Services} |
| 2 | |
| 3 | The modules described in this chapter provide miscellaneous services |
| 4 | that are available in all Python versions. Here's an overview: |
| 5 | |
| 6 | \begin{description} |
| 7 | |
| 8 | \item[math] |
| 9 | --- Mathematical functions (\code{sin()} etc.). |
| 10 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 8b0927e | 1998-02-11 22:33:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 11 | \item[cmath] |
| 12 | --- Mathematical functions for complex numbers. |
| 13 | |
| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | \item[whrandom] |
| Guido van Rossum | 571391b | 1997-04-03 22:41:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | --- Floating point pseudo-random number generator. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | \item[random] |
| 18 | --- Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | \item[rand] |
| 21 | --- Integer pseudo-random number generator (obsolete). |
| Guido van Rossum | ecde781 | 1995-03-28 13:35:14 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | |
| 23 | \item[array] |
| 24 | --- Efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | \end{description} |