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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
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Expand Up @@ -193,9 +193,16 @@ Add option ``--json-lines`` to parse every input line as separate JSON object.
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Added new function :func:`math.dist` for computing Euclidean distance
between two points. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`33089`.)

Expanded the :func:`math.hypot` function to handle multiple dimensions.
Formerly, it only supported the 2-D case.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`33089`.)

Added new function, :func:`math.prod`, as analogous function to :func:`sum`
that returns the product of a 'start' value (default: 1) times an iterable of
numbers. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`issue35606`)
numbers. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :issue:`35606`)


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