[Tutor] First Serious Num-Python Prog.

[Karthikesh Raju]

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Hi All,

The following is my first serious python program. This does LS based
estimation. i havent commented it but i was filled with enthu that i
wanted to get the comments of people on how better i could do and the
means and methods to imporve this. (Please leave the comments and the
synthetic ones).

Hoping to get a lot of improvement suggestions,

Best regards
karthik



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