This is a fancy way to say that we can use Python, which is a programming language, to do math stuff on our computers.
For example, let’s say you want to add two numbers together.In Python, this would look like:
# Define the variables x and y with values of 5 and 7 respectively
x = 5 # Assigns the value 5 to the variable x
y = 7 # Assigns the value 7 to the variable y
# Add them using the '+' operator and assign the result to the variable result
result = x + y
# Print out the result to see what we got!
print(result) # Prints the value of result, which is the sum of x and y
This code defines two variables, `x` and `y`, with values of 5 and 7 respectively. Then it adds those numbers together using the `+` operator (which is just a fancy way of saying “add these two things”) and stores the result in another variable called `result`. Finally, we print out the value stored in `result` so that we can see what our answer was!
Another example might be finding the square root of a number.In Python, this would look like:
# Define the variable x with a value of 25 (which is the number we want to find the square root of)
x = 25
# Import the math module to access its functions
import math
# Use the sqrt() function from the math module to calculate the square root of our input number and store the result in a variable called result
result = math.sqrt(x)
# Print out the result so that we can see what we got!
print(result)
In this code, we first define a variable `x` with a value of 25 (which is the number we want to find the square root of). Then we import the math module and use its sqrt() function to calculate the square root of our input number. Finally, we print out the result so that we can see what our answer was!
I hope this helps clarify how Python can be used for basic mathematical algorithms. Let me know if you have any other questions or if there’s anything else I can help you with!