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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, a <b>Gaussian function</b>, often simply referred to as a <b>Gaussian</b>, is a <a href="page.php?w=function_%28mathematics%29">function</a> of the base form</p>

<p>and with parametric extension</p>

<p>for arbitrary <a href="page.php?w=real_number">real</a> constants ,  and non-zero . It is named after the mathematician <a href="page.php?w=Carl_Friedrich_Gauss">Carl Friedrich Gauss</a>. The <a href="page.php?w=graph_of_a_function">graph</a> of a Gaussian is a characteristic symmetric "<a href="page.php?w=Normal_distribution">bell curve</a>"</p><p>
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