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This document provides instructions for Lab Exercise 5 in CSCI 235. Students must submit two functions in a file called lab05.py: 1. A sine function that computes trigonometric sine using a Taylor series expansion, up to 50 terms. It takes real or complex numbers as input. 2. An interactive collatz function that prompts the user for a number, displays and calculates its Collatz sequence until it reaches 1, or the user enters 'q' or 'Q' to quit. It ensures the input is an integer greater than 1. The goal is to learn how to run and write basic Python programs, including functions, input/output, and exceptions. Solutions must be submitted to

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Python 05

This document provides instructions for Lab Exercise 5 in CSCI 235. Students must submit two functions in a file called lab05.py: 1. A sine function that computes trigonometric sine using a Taylor series expansion, up to 50 terms. It takes real or complex numbers as input. 2. An interactive collatz function that prompts the user for a number, displays and calculates its Collatz sequence until it reaches 1, or the user enters 'q' or 'Q' to quit. It ensures the input is an integer greater than 1. The goal is to learn how to run and write basic Python programs, including functions, input/output, and exceptions. Solutions must be submitted to

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CSCI 235, Lab Exercise 5, Basics of Python

Deadline: 13.10.2023 at 11PM

Solutions must be submitted into Moodle as a single text 2ile, with name lab05.py,
into Moodle. Don’t use an archiver.
Your 2ile must contain two functions de2initions, sine and collatz.
Goal of this exercise is that you learn how to run a Python program, that you
become familiar with the lay out of a Python program, and that you learn some
basic functions of Python.
Make sure that you are using Python version 3.10 or higher.

1. Write a function that computes the trigonometric sine function by means


of the Taylor expansion:

Test your implementation for real numbers and for complex numbers. You
!"#$
can stop when the factor (!"#$)! becomes very small, or repeat up to a high
number, for example 50.
Make sure that your function starts with def sine(x) : and that it can
be called as lab05.sine from the Python interpreter.

>>> lab05.sine( 0.1 )


0.09983341664682817
>>> lab05.sine( 30 * 3.1415926536 / 180 )
0.5000000000014734
>>> lab05.sine( 0.5 - 0.3j )
(0.5011619801599463-0.2672416992709515j)

2. The Collatz sequence is de2ined as follows: If n is even, then the next number
is n/2. If n is odd, then the next number is 3n + 1. For example, starting with
6 gives the following sequence:

6 ⇒ 3 ⇒ 10 ⇒ 5 ⇒ 16 ⇒ 8 ⇒ 4 ⇒ 2 ⇒ 1.

It is believed (but not proven) that every number reaches 1 eventually.


Your task is to write an interactive function (called collatz) that
repeatedly ask the user for a number greater than one. If the user types ’quit’,

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’q’, or ’Q’ then the program stops. If the user types a number less or equal to
one, then the program must tell that the number is too small and ask for a
new number. If the number is greater than one, the program should show
the Collatz sequence for this number. Your function must start with def
collatz( ) : Here is an example:

>> lab05.collatz( )
Please type a number greater than
one or ’quit’ to quit
6
Giving Collatz sequence for 6

iteration 1 results in 6
iteration 2 results in 3
iteration 3 results in 10
iteration 4 results in 5
iteration 5 results in 16
iteration 6 results in 8
iteration 7 results in 4
iteration 8 results in 2
iteration 9 results in 1

Please type a number greater than


one or ’quit’ to quit
1
you typed 1, which is not greater
than one Please type a number
greater than one or ’quit’ to quit q
goodbye

• It is convenient to use format in Python.


print( "{} is less than {}". format(1,2))will print 1
is less than 2.
• You can use input() to ask for input.
• Use // for division to make sure that the sequence stays integer.
• Checking if the input is a correct number seems to be tricky. The easiest
way is to call the int( ) function, which tries to convert a string into
an integer, and to catch the exception if it is thrown:
try:
inp = input(
) i = int( inp )
except
ValueError:
# it turns out that inp was not an integer.

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