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Matplotlib (portmanteau of MATLAB, plot, and library [3]) is a plotting library for the Python programming language and its numerical mathematics extension NumPy.It provides an object-oriented API for embedding plots into applications using general-purpose GUI toolkits like Tkinter, wxPython, Qt, or GTK.
Successive parabolic interpolation is a technique for finding the extremum (minimum or maximum) of a continuous unimodal function by successively fitting parabolas (polynomials of degree two) to a function of one variable at three unique points or, in general, a function of n variables at 1+n(n+3)/2 points, and at each iteration replacing the "oldest" point with the extremum of the fitted ...
The Fermat spiral with polar equation = can be converted to the Cartesian coordinates (x, y) by using the standard conversion formulas x = r cos φ and y = r sin φ.Using the polar equation for the spiral to eliminate r from these conversions produces parametric equations for one branch of the curve:
The basic example of a parabolic PDE is the one-dimensional heat equation u t = α u x x , {\displaystyle u_{t}=\alpha \,u_{xx},} where u ( x , t ) {\displaystyle u(x,t)} is the temperature at position x {\displaystyle x} along a thin rod at time t {\displaystyle t} and α {\displaystyle \alpha } is a positive constant called the thermal ...
In general the determination of an intersection leads to non-linear equations, which can be solved numerically, for example using Newton iteration. Intersection problems between a line and a conic section (circle, ellipse, parabola, etc.) or a quadric (sphere, cylinder, hyperboloid, etc.) lead to quadratic equations that can
Muller's method is a recursive method that generates a new approximation of a root ξ of f at each iteration using the three prior iterations. Starting with three initial values x 0, x −1 and x −2, the first iteration calculates an approximation x 1 using those three, the second iteration calculates an approximation x 2 using x 1, x 0 and x −1, the third iteration calculates an ...
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In contrast with comments, docstrings are themselves Python objects and are part of the interpreted code that Python runs. That means that a running program can retrieve its own docstrings and manipulate that information, but the normal usage is to give other programmers information about how to invoke the object being documented in the docstring.