Using IPython

For a Windows version, after navigating to Anaconda3 from All Programs and then clicking on IPython, we can see the following:

You can also do the the same by launching Anaconda Prompt and then typing ipython.

This tells us that the version of Python is 3.6.3 and that the version of IPython is 6.1.0. We could type a few commands to test it. For example, if we invest $100 today for an investment horizon of 5 years, and the annual return is 10%, what is our expected future value? The future value formula for a given present value is provided here:

where FV is the future value, PV is the present value, R is the period return, ...

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