Problems

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