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Read the official tutorial or a book if you have no experience with Python.

1. be aware that there are accuracy issues with floating-point arithmetic
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic#Accuracy_problems
   • https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html
   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/decimal.html
   • https://www.sympy.org
   • http://mpmath.org
2. review the operators
3. be aware of the built-in functions: all, any, divmod, map, max, min, print, reverse, round, sum
   • https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html
4. be aware of the included modules:
   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/math.html
   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/statistics.html
   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/decimal.html
   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/fractions.html
   • https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/itertools.html
5. read the control flow section of the official tutorial
6. read about list comprehensions

Investigate:

• http://www.sagemath.org
• https://scipy.org
• https://www.spyder-ide.org/
• https://github.com/jupyter/qtconsole (ipython)
• https://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific

Examples:

• https://pymotw.com/3/math/
• https://pymotw.com/3/statistics/
• http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Mathematics
• http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Geometry
• https://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/mathematics/
• https://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/math
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python+math
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mathematics_with_Python_and_Ruby/Fractions_in_Python

Q&A:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python
• https://python-forum.io
• https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/