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The Rime of the Data Scientist
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 13, 2013
The Rime of the Data Scientist (with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Part I It is a Data Scientist, And he stoppeth one of three. `By thy Python code and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp’st thou me? The classroom doors are opened wide, And I am next one in; The others are met, the […]
The leading (base 10) digit of an integer
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 25, 2013
Surely the leading (= left-most) digit of a positive integer is an obvious thing? Just stare at the integer (e.g. 7823) and observe the left-most digit (7, and in this example)? Suppose, clinic however, that you wanted to find the leading digit of a very large list of positive integers, a list so large it […]
