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| author | Joonas Paalasmaa <joonas.paalasmaa@wolt.com> | 2021-04-20 14:33:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-04-20 14:33:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 389212c5db81e6aeab660665d2c59843d8d36f8e (patch) | |
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Document that random.gauss is normal distribution (GH-24935)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/random.rst b/Doc/library/random.rst index 9d85c2b..9f037a1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/random.rst +++ b/Doc/library/random.rst @@ -326,9 +326,9 @@ be found in any statistics text. .. function:: gauss(mu, sigma) - Gaussian distribution. *mu* is the mean, and *sigma* is the standard - deviation. This is slightly faster than the :func:`normalvariate` function - defined below. + Normal distribution, also called the Gaussian distribution. *mu* is the mean, + and *sigma* is the standard deviation. This is slightly faster than + the :func:`normalvariate` function defined below. Multithreading note: When two threads call this function simultaneously, it is possible that they will receive the |