Probability is a wide and deep subject. I’m going to present just the basics, which is a very subjective statement. This post will serve as a reference for you to use for more “advanced” topics. And yes “advanced” is also subjective.
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Almost done. We will start with work to get the coefficients out of our row echelon matrix and end with a check and displaying the balanced equation.
I forgot to mention that we will be using a little list comprehension, exciting.
We are ready to tackle a full chemical equation.
And we dive into a little data structure and some parsing
Expressing chemical formulas (something we do on paper quite easily) in the computer, while not as easy, is still something quite doable. Python is here to the rescue.
Time to dive into the “a LOT of Python.” I hope you are ready. I hope I am ready!
By the end of this post, we will be able to get any matrix into Row Echelon Form. It will be helpful to look at the All Integer Method. We will be using a modified version of it to obtain our goal.
Finding the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two numbers is an operation that most high school math students end up performing. However, most probably don’t learn a fancy algorithm to do it. Euclid’s Algorithm is just this algorithm. Well, maybe it is not fancy, but it is elegant (at least to me).
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