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The document provides guidance on evaluating applications by asking questions about usability and features. It highlights the use of Python libraries like NumPy and SciPy for developing math, scientific, and engineering applications, as well as explaining numeric bases and data types such as integers and floating-point values. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of operators in managing and manipulating data within applications.

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The document provides guidance on evaluating applications by asking questions about usability and features. It highlights the use of Python libraries like NumPy and SciPy for developing math, scientific, and engineering applications, as well as explaining numeric bases and data types such as integers and floating-point values. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of operators in managing and manipulating data within applications.

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Here are some

questions you can ask yourself as you work with the applications:
✓ What do I find distracting about the application?
✓ Which features were easy to use?
✓ Which features were hard to use?
✓ How did the application make it easy to interact with my data?
✓ How would I make the data easier to work with?
✓ What do I hope to achieve with my application that this application
doesn’t provide?

Designing mathematic, scientific, and engineering applications:


Interestingly enough, Python provides access to some really cool libraries
that make it easier to create math, scientific, and engineering applications.
The two most popular libraries are NumPy (http://www.numpy.
org/) and SciPy (http://www.scipy.org/). These libraries greatly
reduce the time you spend writing specialized code to perform common
math, scientific, and engineering tasks.

To tell Python when to use bases other than base 10, you add a 0 and a special
letter to the number. For example, 0b100 is the value one-zero-zero in
base 2. Here are the letters you normally use:
✓ b: Base 2
✓ o: Base 8
✓ x: Base 16
It’s also possible to convert numeric values to other bases using the bin(),
oct(), and hex() commands. So, putting everything together, you can see
how to convert between bases using the commands shown in Figure 5-2.
Try the command shown in the figure yourself so that you can see how the
various bases work. Using a different base actually makes things easier in
many situations, and you’ll encounter some of those situations later in the
book. For now, all you really need to know is that integers support different
numeric bases

Integers
Any whole number is an integer. For example, the value 1 is a whole number,
so it’s an integer. On the other hand, 1.0 isn’t a whole number; it has a decimal
part to it, so it’s not an integer. Integers are represented by the int
data type.

Floating-point values
Any number that includes a decimal portion is a floating-point value. For
example, 1.0 has a decimal part, so it’s a floating-point value. Many people get
confused about whole numbers and floating-point numbers, but the difference
is easy to remember. If you see a decimal in the number, then it’s a floatingpoint
value. Python stores floating-point values in the float data type.

Operators are the basis for both control and management of data within
applications. You use operators to define how one piece of data is compared
to another and to modify the information within a single variable. In fact,
operators are essential to performing any sort of math-related task and to
assigning data to variables in the first place

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