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LaTeX source and supporting code for Think Python, 2nd edition, by Allen Downey.
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Some punctuation, not sure it's a bug or just a habit of expression #103

Closed wenbindu closed 1 year ago

wenbindu commented 1 year ago

the line : 7253.

` ``I was driving on the highway the other day and I happened to notice my odometer. Like most odometers, it shows six digits, in whole miles only. So, if my car had 300,000 miles, for example, I'd see 3-0-0-0-0-0.

``Now, what I saw that day was very interesting. I noticed that the last 4 digits were palindromic; that is, they read the same forward as backward. For example, 5-4-4-5 is a palindrome, so my odometer could have read 3-1-5-4-4-5.

``One mile later, the last 5 numbers were palindromic. For example, it could have read 3-6-5-4-5-6. One mile after that, the middle 4 out of 6 numbers were palindromic. And you ready for this? One mile later, all 6 were palindromic!

`The question is, what was on the odometer when I first looked?''

Dr, @AllenDowney I am just not sure, if u lost the end of the double quotations for the three paragraphs?

AllenDowney commented 1 year ago

Apparently that's standard punctuation for a multi-paragraph quotation. But for the next edition I have a better option. Thanks!