Hello Julia community, julia> pdf(Normal(), 0.3) 0.38138781546052414 I want to know how the pdf function is implemented, but the source code for Distribution.jl tells me nothing (in fact it looks like an infinite loop). Am I missing something? Wouldn’t there at least have to have a 2\pi somewhere…

julia-1.1> d = Normal() julia-1.1> @less pdf(d, 0.3) # shows this is implemented via a macro, so try something else julia-1.1> @code_lowered pdf(d,0.3) CodeInfo( 1 ─ %1 = (Base.getproperty)(d, :μ) │ %2 = (Base.getproperty)(d, :σ) │ %3 = (Distributions.normpdf)(%1, %2, x) └── return %3 ) ju…

Where is the `pdf` function in Distribution.jl implemented?

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adienes February 28, 2023, 3:34am 7

It can be true

This is what the pdf of Normal(3, 0.05) looks like

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Where is the `pdf` function in Distribution.jl implemented?

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