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    "# IPython Notebook for turning in solutions to the problems in the Essentials of Paleomagnetism Textbook by L. Tauxe"
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    "## Problems in Chapter 7"
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   "source": [
    "Most of these problems, you should be able to solve on your own.  congratulations! you are a programmer now!  But here is one hint that will help you out with Problem 2"
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   "source": [
    "## Problem 2"
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   "source": [
    "Type in here the text for your problem.  what is tau?  how does it depend on M?"
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   "source": [
    "For this problem, I want you to use the nice 'tabulate' environment, downloaded from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate/0.7.2\n",
    "unzip the downloaded file, change directories into it and type the command\n"
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   "cell_type": "markdown",
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   "source": [
    "pip install tabulate.\n",
    "\n",
    "You can use tabulate like this..... "
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      "-------  -------  ------  ---------\n",
      "mineral  M (A/m)  B (uT)  tau (sec)\n",
      "-------  -------  ------  ---------\n",
      "-------  --------------  -------------  --------------\n",
      "mineral  some number     some field     some number\n",
      "mineral  another number  another field  another number\n",
      "-------  --------------  -------------  --------------\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "from tabulate import tabulate\n",
    "header = [[\"mineral\",\"M (A/m)\",\"B (uT)\", \"tau (sec)\"]]\n",
    "table=[['mineral','some number','some field','some number'],\n",
    "      ['mineral', 'another number','another field','another number']]\n",
    "print tabulate(header)\n",
    "print tabulate(table)\n",
    "# and so on.  of course you put in your own data. "
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