Add math.erfc and turtledemo.

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Raymond Hettinger 2011-01-25 06:58:01 +00:00
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The :func:`~math.erf` function computes a probability integral or `Gaussian
error function <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_function>`_:
error function <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_function>`_. The
complementary error function, :func:`~math.erfc`, is ``1 - erf(x)``:
>>> erf(1.0/sqrt(2.0)) # portion of normal distribution within 1 standard deviation
0.682689492137086
>>> erfc(1.0/sqrt(2.0)) # portion of normal distribution outside 1 standard deviation
0.31731050786291404
>>> erf(1.0/sqrt(2.0)) + erfc(1.0/sqrt(2.0))
1.0
The :func:`~math.gamma` function is a continuous extension of the factorial
function. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function for details. Because
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(Work by Nick Coghlan, Dan Mahn, and Senthil Kumaran in :issue:`2987`,
:issue:`5468`, and :issue:`9873`.)
turtledemo
----------
The demonstration code for the :mod:`turtle` module was moved from the *Demo*
directory to main library. It includes over a dozen sample scripts with
lively displays. Being on :attr:`sys.path`, it can now be run directly
from the command-line::
$ python -m turtledemo
Multi-threading
===============
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