Learning Scientific Programming with Python (2nd edition)

Problems

• P2.2.1: The XOR operator
• P2.2.2: Some fun with the math module:
• P2.2.3: The sign function
• P2.2.4: Estimating the surface area of the Earth
• P2.3.1: GC-content of a nucleotide sequence
• P2.3.2: String formatting and physical constants
• P2.3.3: Formatting a matrix
• P2.3.4: Planet symbols in Unicode
• P2.4.1: Product of all but one integers in a list
• P2.4.2: The Hamming distance between strings
• P2.4.3: $\pi$ read aloud
• P2.4.4: Pascal's triangle #1
• P2.4.5: DNA codons
• P2.4.6: The double factorial function
• P2.4.7: Benford's Law
• P2.5.1: Pascal's triangle #2
• P2.5.2: The iterative weak acid approximation
• P2.5.3: The Luhn algorithm
• P2.5.4: Hero's method for computing a square root
• P2.5.5: Determining tomorrow's date
• P2.5.6: de Polignac's formula
• P2.5.7: The Hailstone Sequence
• P2.5.8: The Sieve of Eratosthenes
• P2.5.9: Euler's totient function
• P2.5.10: Monte Carlo approximation of $\pi$
• P2.5.11: Jumbling the letters in each word of a sentence
• P2.5.12: Electronic configurations
• P2.6.1: Analysing redwood species data
• P2.6.2: Censoring a text
• P2.6.3: Earth Similarity Index
• P2.6.4: Manipulating a two-dimensional array
• P2.7.1: Does a Scrabble word fit?
• P2.7.2: A little number problem
• P2.7.3: Vector products
• P2.7.4: Volume and surface area of a right regular pyramid
• P2.7.5: Range and height of a projectile
• P2.7.6: An integral of sine and cosine products
• P2.7.7: Determine if a string is a palindrome using recursion
• P2.7.8: Tetration