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Object-Oriented Programming

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Python is an object-oriented programming language. The key notion is that of an object. An object consists of two things: data and functions (called methods) that work with that data. As an example, strings in Python are objects. The data of the string object is the actual characters that make up that string. The methods…

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Exponential sums make interesting pictures

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Exponential sums are a specialized area of math that studies series with terms that are complex exponentials. Exponential sums also make pretty pictures. If you make a scatter plot of the sequence of partial sums you can get surprising shapes. This is related to the trickiness of estimating such sums: the partial sums don’t simply…

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