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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2011-01-25 02:38:59 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2011-01-25 02:38:59 (GMT)
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@@ -998,11 +998,11 @@ error function <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_function>`_:
>>> erf(1.0/sqrt(2.0)) # portion of normal distribution within 1 standard deviation
0.682689492137086
-:func:`~math.gamma` is a continuous extension of the factorial function. See
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function for details. Because the function
-is related to factorials, it grows large even for small values of *x*, so there
-is also a :func:`~math.lgamma` for computing the natural logarithm of the gamma
-function:
+The :func:`~math.gamma` function is a continuous extension of the factorial
+function. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function for details. Because
+the function is related to factorials, it grows large even for small values of
+*x*, so there is also a :func:`~math.lgamma` function for computing the natural
+logarithm of the gamma function:
>>> gamma(7.0) # six factorial
720.0