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1 \chapter{Miscellaneous Services}
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3 The modules described in this chapter provide miscellaneous services
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4 that are available in all Python versions. Here's an overview:
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6 \begin{description}
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8 \item[math]
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9 --- Mathematical functions (\code{sin()} etc.).
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11 \item[whrandom]
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12 --- Floating point pseudo-random number generator.
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14 \item[random]
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15 --- Generate pseudo-random numbers with various common distributions.
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17 \item[rand]
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18 --- Integer pseudo-random number generator (obsolete).
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20 \item[array]
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21 --- Efficient arrays of uniformly typed numeric values.
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23 \end{description}