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Re: Help with python functions?

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On Monday, September 23, 2013 10:12:05 PM UTC-4, Denis McMahon wrote:
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> If the first function you wrote allows you to convert temps in different 
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> scales to a common scale, then in the second function, you can call the 
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> first function to convert both temps to a common scale, and compare them.
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> Adding "same scale" conversions in the first function might help. In a 
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> same scale conversion, the input and output units are the same, and the 
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> output value is the input value.
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> Then to compare T1 in u1 and T2 in u2, convert them both to a common 
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> scale (which might be u1 or u2 or some other scale) using your temp 
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> function, and then compare the resulting values.
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> Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

Not sure if we've gotten that far in class, considering I don't know how to go about doing that.

For the third function, I'm actually kind of stumped:
def P(p_0, t, i):
    Amount = P(1 + (i/100))
    return P(1 + (t * i/12))

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