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3LoopsandBranching 3.1 TheforLoop Many computations are repetitive by nature and programming languages have certain loopstructures to dealwith this. Onesuch loopstructure is the for loop. 3.1.1 Example:Printingthe5TimesTable Assume the task is to print out the 5 times table. Before having learned about loop structures inprogramming,mostofuswouldfirst thinkofcoding this like: # Naively printing the 5 times table print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(1, 1*5)) print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(2, 2*5)) print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(3, 3*5)) print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(4, 4*5)) print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(5, 5*5)) print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(6, 6*5)) print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(7, 7*5)) print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(8, 8*5)) print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(9, 9*5)) print(’{:d}*5 = {:d}’.format(10, 10*5)) ©The Author(s) 2020 S.Linge, H.P. Langtangen, Programming forComputations -Python, Texts in Computational Science and Engineering 15, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16877-3_3 59