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Don't worry if you don't know what that means. Essentially it says that Python's new-style classes ``do the right thing.'' 

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...102#102.
The notation 103#103 denotes the floor function , which is defined as follows: For any real number x, 104#104 is the greatest integer less than or equal to x. While we are on the subject, there is a related function, the ceiling function , written 105#105. For any real number x, 106#106 is the smallest integer greater than or equal to x. 
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...119#119.
In fact, we would normally write 120#120, but we have not yet seen the 1#1 notation which is introduced in Chapter gif. 
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Guillaume François Antoine de L'Hôpital, marquis de Sainte-Mesme, is known for his rule for computing limits which states that if 357#357 and 358#358, then

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where f'(n) and g'(n) are the first derivatives with respect to n of f(n) and g(n), respectively. The rule is also effective if 360#360 and 361#361. 

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...commensurate.
Functions which are commensurate  are functions which can be compared one with the other. 
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...436#436.
This notion of the looseness (tightness ) of an asymptotic bound is related to but not exactly the same as that given in Definition gif. 
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...numbers.
Fibonacci numbers are named in honor of Leonardo Pisano (Leonardo of Pisa), the son of Bonaccio (in Latin, Filius Bonaccii), who discovered the series in 1202. 
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...numbers.
These running times were measured on an Intel Pentium III, which has a 1 GHz clock and 256MB RAM under the Red Hat Linux 7.1 operating system. The programs were executed using the Python version 2.2.3 interpreter. 
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...object
Strictly speaking, this is true only for the so-called ``new-style'' Python classes   which were introduced in Python version 2.2. Support for the so-called ``classic'' classes  , which are not ultimately derived from the object class, is being phased out of the Python language. In this book we will use only Python new-style classes. 

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For a complete list of the methods defined in the __builtin__.object class, you should consult the Python Reference Manual[49]. 
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...NAME=7372> .
The word deque is usually pronounced like ``deck'' and sometimes like ``deek.'' 
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...order
A total order is a relation, say <, defined on a set of elements, say 795#795, with the following properties:
  1. For all pairs of elements 796#796, such that 797#797, exactly one of either i<j or j<i holds. (All elements are commensurate ).
  2. For all triples 798#798, 799#799. (The relation 394#394 is transitive ).

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This is the Swedish word for the number two. The symbol å in the Unicode character set  can be represented in a Python program using the Unicode escape  ``u00E5''. 

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I have been advised that a book with out sex will never be a best seller. ``Sex'' is the Swedish word for the number six. 

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...prime
Two numbers x and y are relatively prime   if there is no number other than one that divides both x and y evenly. 
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What else would it be? 
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Isomorphic is a fancy word that means being of identical or similar form or shape or structure. 
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...Landis
Russian mathematicians G. M. Adel'son-Vel'skiı and E. M. Landis published this result in 1962. 
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...trees.
Obviously since B-Trees are M-way trees, the ``B'' in B-Tree does not stand for binary. B-Trees were invented by R. Bayer and E. McCright in 1972, so the ``B'' either stands for balanced or Bayer-take your pick. 
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Isaac Newton  discovered the binomial theorem in 1676 but did not publish a proof. Leonhard Euler  attempted a proof in 1774. Karl Friedrich Gauss  produced the first correct proof in 1812. 
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...subsets.
Stirling numbers of the second kind  are given by the formula

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Note: The Python del operator does not destroy objects-it removes the binding for a name from a namespace. That is, del disassociates a name from an object but leave the object itself intact. 

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Mark-and-sweep garbage collection is described by John McCarthy in a paper on the LISP language published in 1960. 
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...space.
The reader may find it instructive to compare Program gif with Program gif and Program gif. 
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The reader may find it instructive to compare Program gif with Program gif and Program gif. 
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...NAME=33205> .
The table is named in honor of Blaise Pascal  who published a treatise on the subject in 1653. 
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Prime numbers of the form 1905#1905 are known as Mersenne primes . 
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...1908#1908.
For convenience, we use the notation 1909#1909 to denote 1910#1910. 
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...NAME=35168> .
Unfortunately, the fame of bubble sort exceeds by far its practical value. 
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...zero.
There is also the symmetrical case in which i is always n-1. 
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...(respectively)
In this book, the names of instance attributes typically begin with an underscore ``_''. 

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