Chapter 15. Numeric Processing
You can perform some numeric computations with operators (covered in Numeric Operations) and built-in functions (covered in Built-in Functions). Python also provides modules that support additional numeric computation functionality, as documented in this chapter: math
, cmath
in The math and cmath Modules, operator
in The operator Module, random
in The random module, and decimal
in The decimal Module. The gmpy Module also covers third-party module gmpy
, which further extends Python’s numeric computation abilities. Numeric processing often requires, more specifically, the processing of arrays of numbers, covered in Chapter 16.
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