BeginnersGuide/Mathematics
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Read the official tutorial or a book if you have no experience with Python.
- be aware that there are accuracy issues with floating-point arithmetic
review the operators
- be aware of the built-in functions: all, any, divmod, map, max, min, print, reverse, round, sum
- be aware of the included modules:
read the control flow section of the official tutorial
read about list comprehensions
Investigate:
https://github.com/jupyter/qtconsole (ipython)
Examples:
Q&A: