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Mathematical Functions in Pytho3

This document discusses special mathematical functions and constants in Python. It describes the gamma() function, which returns the gamma function of the argument. It also describes the built-in constants pi and e, which output the values of pi (3.141592) and e (2.718281). The document also discusses inf for positive infinity, -inf for negative infinity, nan for "not a number", and the functions isinf() and isnan() to check for infinity and not-a-number values. Code examples are provided to demonstrate the usage of these functions and constants.

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Mathematical Functions in Pytho3

This document discusses special mathematical functions and constants in Python. It describes the gamma() function, which returns the gamma function of the argument. It also describes the built-in constants pi and e, which output the values of pi (3.141592) and e (2.718281). The document also discusses inf for positive infinity, -inf for negative infinity, nan for "not a number", and the functions isinf() and isnan() to check for infinity and not-a-number values. Code examples are provided to demonstrate the usage of these functions and constants.

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Mathematical Functions in Python | Set 4 (Special

Functions and Constants)


Some of the mathematical functions are discussed in below set 1, set 2 and set 3
Mathematical Functions in Python | Set 1 (Numeric Functions)
Mathematical Functions in Python | Set 2 (Logarithmic and Power Functions)
Mathematical Functions in Python | Set 3 (Trigonometric and Angular Functions)
Special Functions and constants are discussed in this article.

1. gamma() :- This function is used to return the gamma function of the argument.


# Python code to demonstrate the working of
# gamma()
  
# importing "math" for mathematical operations
import math
 
a =4
 
# returning the gamma() of 4
print ("The gamma() of 4 is : ", end="")
print (math.gamma(a))

Output:

The gamma() of 4 is : 6.0

2. pi :- This is an inbuilt constant that outputs the value of pi(3.141592).


3. e :- This is an inbuilt constant that outputs the value of e(2.718281).
# Python code to demonstrate the working of
# const. pi and e
  
# importing "math" for mathematical operations
import math
 
# returning the value of const. pi
print ("The value of const. pi is : ", end="")
print (math.pi)
 
# returning the value of const. e
print ("The value of const. e is : ", end="")
print (math.e)

Output:

The value of const. pi is : 3.141592653589793

The value of const. e is : 2.718281828459045


4. inf :- This is a positive floating point infinity constant . -inf is used to denote the negative
floating point infinity. This constant is defined in python 3.5 and above.
5. isinf() :- This function is used to check whether the value is an infinity or not.
6. nan :- This constant denotes “Not a number” in python. This constant is defined in python
3.5 and above.
7. isnan() :- This function returns true if the number is “nan” else returns false.
# Python code to demonstrate the working of
# inf, nan, isinf(), isnan()
  
# importing "math" for mathematical operations
import math
 
# checking if number is nan
if (math.isnan(math.nan)):
       print ("The number is nan")
else : print ("The number is not nan")
 
# checking if number is positive infinity
if (math.isinf(math.inf)):
       print ("The number is positive infinity")
else : print ("The number is not positive infinity")

Output:

The number is nan

The number is positive infinity

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