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author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-04-20 14:43:44 (GMT) |
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committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-04-20 14:43:44 (GMT) |
commit | a933f6a53d45099cb5a45f1dc58555cf245bcc81 (patch) | |
tree | 98b33415b3c6ef79075abcaf451ba9e0b583a93d /Doc/librandom.tex | |
parent | 9a34523e19a7241e4b14151ca96243234af650e4 (diff) | |
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Fix vonmisesvariate() -- it now returns an angle between 0 and *two*
times pi. Got rid of $math$ here and in one other place.
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diff --git a/Doc/librandom.tex b/Doc/librandom.tex index fb62f8f..b76822e 100644 --- a/Doc/librandom.tex +++ b/Doc/librandom.tex @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Returned values will range between 0 and 1. Circular uniform distribution. \var{mean} is the mean angle, and \var{arc} is the range of the distribution, centered around the mean angle. Both values must be expressed in radians, and can range -between 0 and $\pi$. Returned values will range between +between 0 and pi. Returned values will range between \code{\var{mean} - \var{arc}/2} and \code{\var{mean} + \var{arc}/2}. \end{funcdesc} @@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ standard deviation. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{vonmisesvariate}{mu, kappa} -\var{mu} is the mean angle, expressed in radians between 0 and pi, +\var{mu} is the mean angle, expressed in radians between 0 and 2*pi, and \var{kappa} is the concentration parameter, which must be greater -then or equal to zero. If \var{kappa} is equal to zero, this +than or equal to zero. If \var{kappa} is equal to zero, this distribution reduces to a uniform random angle over the range 0 to -$2\pi$. +2*pi. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{paretovariate}{alpha} |