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by stiff 4693 days ago
NumPy is a full MAT-LAB for Python, not a simple drop-in statistics library. It has to depend on LINPACK because writing a full linear algebra library that performs well is damn hard and takes several researcher-years. Most serious scientific computing libraries and utilities depend on it, including Julia I think. There is certainly room for simpler libraries for people not seriously into numeric computations, as the document linked well indicates.