Business as usual

I just finished reading Case in Point by Marc Consentino. It's a prep book for consulting case interviews, at firms like BCG and McKinsey. I picked it up because I'd like to better understand how corporate logic, the economy and the healthcare market affect me as a physician. I figured a book like this would be a good starting point, and contain advice on how to stay on top of business and finance topics.

One tool Consentino mentions, that I like, looks like this:

E(P=R-C)M

It's a tool used when analyzing the profits and losses of a company.

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The Economist recently published a modern alternative to the classic "Lorem ipsum" filler text. It's not bad!

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I've been on the lookout for a way to maintain my coding skills and simultaneously apply my maths knowledge. I found it!

projecteuler.net

Project Euler provides mathematical problems that require a computer and programming to be solved. For example, in order to even register for the site, one must solve the following problem:

A number is a perfect square, or a square number, if it is the square of a positive integer.

For example, 25 is a square number because 5^2=5 \times 5=25; it is also an odd square.

The first 5 square numbers are: 1,4,9,16,25, and the sum of the odd squares is 1+9+25=35.

Among the first 290 thousand square numbers, what is the sum of all the odd squares?

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The Python Ternary Operator

My most recent Python dicovery is the ternary operator.

The ternary operator returns one of two values, based on the truthiness of a Boolean expression.

value_if_true if boolean_expression else value_if_false

Here's an example without the ternary operator, using an if-statement.

def odd_or_even(x):
    if x % 2:
        return "Odd"
    else:
        return "Even"

Here's the same function, using the ternary operator.

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