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Chapter 2: The Core Python Language I
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P2.2
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
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
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
Stirling's Approximation
Evaluating the Madelung Constant
The Mandelbrot Set
P2.5
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
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
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