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Read the official tutorial or a book if you have no experience with Python.

  1. be aware that there are accuracy issues with floating-point arithmetic

  2. review the operators

  3. be aware of the built-in functions: all, any, divmod, map, max, min, print, reverse, round, sum
  4. be aware of the included modules:

  5. read the control flow section of the official tutorial

  6. read about list comprehensions

Investigate:

Examples:

Q&A:

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