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Numerical Methods with Python
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Numerical Methods with Python

by William Miles
March 2023
Intermediate to advanced
326 pages
7h 11m
English
De Gruyter
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2 The basic operations in Python

2.1 Obtaining Python

The Python programming language may be obtained via several sources. A quick web search will indicate many websites from which students may download and install the language. Since there are so many possibilities, we do not attempt to define the installation process. We rely on the student to find and install the language. Students should be sure to install a version of Python 3 because Python 2 will not be supported in the future. For this text, we used Python version 3.8, and the reader should be aware that the language is continually being updated, and sometimes methods and syntax are modified or removed as new versions of the language are developed. Sites such as Python.org and

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