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Practical Programming, 3rd Edition
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Practical Programming, 3rd Edition

by Jennifer Campbell, Jason Montojo, Paul Gries
December 2017
Beginner
412 pages
10h 8m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Storing and Accessing Data in Lists

Table 9 shows the number of gray whales counted near the Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve in a two-week period starting on February 24, 2008.[5]

Table 9. Gray Whale Census

Day

Number of Whales

Day

Number of Whales

1

5

8

6

2

4

9

4

3

7

10

2

4

3

11

1

5

2

12

7

6

3

13

1

7

2

14

3

Using what we have seen so far, we would have to create fourteen variables to keep track of the number of whales counted each day as shown in the figure.

images/lists/list.png

To track an entire year’s worth of observations, we would need 365 variables (366 for a leap ...

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