.. index:: NumPy
.. _NumPy:

NumPy
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Description
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NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python. It contains functionality for arrays, linear algebra, Fourier transforms, random numbers, integration of C, C++ and Fortran code, etc.

User instructions
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NumPy 1.12.1 is installed on all workstations from the Debian repositories for both python2 and python3.

Documentation is available at http://numpy.scipy.org.  Good quality documentation is also availably interactively via python docstrings, e.g.

.. code-block:: python

    import numpy
    print numpy.array.__doc__

Source
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http://numpy.scipy.org/

License
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BSD license.

Admin notes
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The version from the Debian repositories is sufficiently recent currently.