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SciPy

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Python's scientific computing library, built on top of NumPy. Started in 2001 by Travis Oliphant, Pearu Peterson and Eric Jones.

NumPy provides the array; SciPy provides the algorithms. Submodules: optimize (minimization, curve fitting, root finding), signal (filters, convolution), stats (distributions, hypothesis tests), linalg (extended linear algebra), sparse (sparse matrices and graph algorithms), integrate, fft, spatial (KD-trees, convex hulls). Most of it is thin wrappers around battle-tested Fortran and C code — LAPACK, BLAS, ODEPACK, QUADPACK — which is exactly the point: fifty-year-old numerical routines with a decent API. Lends its name to the whole SciPy ecosystem including pandas, scikit-learn and Matplotlib.

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