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6.189 - Homework ONLY: Administrivia

Here are the solutions to the blanks in the code snippets: def swap_first_last(my_list): """This function swaps the first and last elements in a list. It has no return value.""" temp = my_list[0] my_list[0] = my_list[-1] my_list[-1] = temp def second_biggest(my_list): """This function returns the second biggest element in my_list. It assumes that my_list contains distinct, positive integers.""" second_biggest = -5 biggest = -1 for i in my_list: if i > biggest: second_biggest = biggest biggest =

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6.189 - Homework ONLY: Administrivia

Here are the solutions to the blanks in the code snippets: def swap_first_last(my_list): """This function swaps the first and last elements in a list. It has no return value.""" temp = my_list[0] my_list[0] = my_list[-1] my_list[-1] = temp def second_biggest(my_list): """This function returns the second biggest element in my_list. It assumes that my_list contains distinct, positive integers.""" second_biggest = -5 biggest = -1 for i in my_list: if i > biggest: second_biggest = biggest biggest =

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6.189 –Homework ONLY


Session 7

Administrivia
Name:

Instructions:
1. Err..complete the questions :).
2. When we ask for output, you DON'T have to write the spaces/newlines in.
Program Text:

print “X”,

print “X”,

Output:

XX

Day 4: More Loop Practice


Problem 20:
Each of the following function definitions takes a list as a parameter and solves a specific problem.
Correctly fill the blanks in the following code to solve the problems.

There is a way to solve each problem by only filling in the blanks. Don’t just add extra lines to force a
solution. Also, there may even be more elegant solutions that don’t use all the blanks – feel free to use
those too.

Program Text:

def swap_first_last(my_list):
"""This function swaps the first and last elements in a list. It
has no return value."""
temp = _____________
_____________ = _____________
_____________ = _____________
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Program Text:

def second_biggest(my_list):

"""This function returns the second biggest element in my_list. It


assumes that my_list contains distinct, positive integers."""

second_biggest = -5

biggest = -1

for i in my_list:

if i > _____________:

second_biggest = ______________

biggest = _____________________

elif i > second_biggest:

second_biggest = ______________

return second_biggest

Problem 13:
You may recall the notion of a power series from Calculus. A power series is an infinite polynomial series
that approximation a continuous function. For example, the power series of sin(x) is

    

   

3! 5! 7!

The more terms you calculate, the closer your expression will be to sin(x) – hence the reason we call it
an approximation.

Write a function to calculate sin(x) using the above power series (well, fill in the blanks, at least.)

Note: You've already seen the code for a function that can calculate the factorial of a number (Problem
11.) Assume the existance of a factorial(x) function that calculates the factorial of x.
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Program Text:

def calculate_sin(x, number_of_terms):

"Calculates the value of sin(x) using the power series."

number_of_terms = min(20, number_of_terms) #do at most 20 terms

sin_value = 0

for i in range(number_of_terms):

new_term = x ** _____________

new_term /= factorial(___________________)

new_term *= (-1) ** ___________________

sin_value += new_term

return sin_value

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