From 389212c5db81e6aeab660665d2c59843d8d36f8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joonas Paalasmaa Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:33:54 +0300 Subject: Document that random.gauss is normal distribution (GH-24935) --- Doc/library/random.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 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 -- cgit v0.12