Exercise 06-13:
What happens when two values are the same? Trace Program 6.18 but with the list L = [3, 3, 1, 5, 4].
Answer:
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# File: chapter 06/exercise-06-13.py.py
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T = [-10, -8, 0, 1, 2, 5, -2, -4]
minimum = T[
0
] # The choice of the first element is arbitrary, could be any valid element
maximum = T[0]
sum = 0
for e in T:
if e < minimum:
minimum = e
if e > maximum:
maximum = e
sum = sum + e
print(f"Maximum temperature: {maximum} °C")
print(f"Minimum temperature: {minimum} °C")
print(f"Average temperature: {sum / len(T)} °C")