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Exercises#

Important

The examples are taken from the original documentation of the sphinx-exercise extension, available at their website.

The syntax to use exercises is the following:

::::::{exercise} <title>
<content>
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where <content> is what will be inside the exercise. <title> will be displayed in the top part of the admonition. In this chapter we present classes of admonitions available, and their styling in the TU Delft theme.

exercise#

Exercise 1

Recall that \(n!\) is read as “\(n\) factorial” and defined as \(n! = n \times (n - 1) \times \cdots \times 2 \times 1\).

There are functions to compute this in various modules, but let’s write our own version as an exercise.

In particular, write a function factorial such that factorial(n) returns \(n!\) for any positive integer \(n\).

::::::{exercise}
:label: my-exercise
Recall that $n!$ is read as "$n$ factorial" and defined as
$n! = n \times (n - 1) \times \cdots \times 2 \times 1$.

There are functions to compute this in various modules, but let's
write our own version as an exercise.

In particular, write a function `factorial` such that `factorial(n)` returns $n!$
for any positive integer $n$.
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solution#

Important: we recommend you to check out the other component for solutions used more commonly in books produced at TU Delft. You can find it in the chapter Custom components.

Solution to Exercise 1

Here’s one solution.

def factorial(n):
    k = 1
    for i in range(n):
        k = k * (i + 1)
    return k

factorial(4)

::::::{solution} my-exercise
Here's one solution.

```{code-block} python
def factorial(n):
    k = 1
    for i in range(n):
        k = k * (i + 1)
    return k

factorial(4)
```
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