Index

A

abs() built-in function, 37

Complex, 425

Vector, 465

__abs__() method, 477

Abstractions

data, 402

defined, 351

function-call, 606–607

layers, 486

modular programming, 255–259

piping, 155

standard audio, 158

standard drawing, 158

standard input, 143, 151

standard output, 83, 143

Accuracy

challenges, 203

numerical, 506

Adaptive plots, 337–340

__add__() method, 425–426, 472

addints.py, 148–149

Addition

Cartesian coordinate system, 455

complex numbers, 424

floating-point numbers, 28

integers, 25

matrices, 123–124

vectors, 464

Adjacency-matrix, 706

Albers, Josef, 367

alberssquares.py, 367–368

Alex, 400

Algorithms. See also Performance

binary search, 557

breadth-first search, 698, 703

brute-force, 559

depth-first search, 336

Euclid’s, 295

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