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Special Functions

The main feature of the special package is the definition of numerous special functions of mathematical physics. Available are airy, elliptic, bessel, gamma, beta, hypergeometric, and several statistical functions. All of these functions behave can take array arguments and return array results following the same broadcasting rules as other math functions in Numerical Python. For a complete list of these functions with a one-line description type »>help(special). Each function also has it's own documentation accessible using help.



2001-07-27