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Python for Finance

By : Yuxing Yan
Book Image

Python for Finance

By: Yuxing Yan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Python for Finance
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exercises


1. What is the difference between showing the existence of our variables and showing their values?

2. How can you find out more information about a specific function, such as print()?

3. What is the definition of built-in functions?

4. What is a tuple?

5. How do we generate a one-item tuple? What is wrong with the following way to generate a one-item tuple?

>>>abc=("John")

6. Can we change the values of a tuple?

7. Is pow() a built-in function? How do we use it?

8. How do we find all built-in functions? How many built-in functions are present?

9. When we estimate the square root of three, which Python function should we use?

10. Assume that the present value of a perpetuity is $124 and the annual cash flow is $50; what is the corresponding discount rate?

11. Based on the solution of the previous question, what is the quarterly rate?

12. The growing perpetuity is defined as: the future cash flow is increased at a constant growth rate forever. We have the following formula:

Here PV...