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software library to compute KL divergence?

Are there any software libraries that compute KL divergences in closed form, that also give the derivatives of the KL divergence wrt the distributions' parameters? I'm using Julia, so it's ...
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Why do Excel and WolframAlpha give different values for skewness

for the following 3 values 222,1122,45444 WolframAlpha gives 0.706 Excel, using =SKEW(222,1122,45444) gives 1.729 What explains the difference?
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