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Problems of the day
1.
Write a Maple procedure that takes a list of (x,y) data points and returns the slope and y-intercept of the line of best fit.

Example: best_line([[2,3],[4,5], [6,8]]);

\begin{displaymath}\{m=\frac{5}{4},b=\frac{1}{3}\}
\end{displaymath}

2.
Decode the following message. It was encoded using the second Caesar cipher algorithm with an offset of 3: ``WrCehCruCqrwCwrCehBCwkdwClvCwkhCtxhvwlrqA''. What letter gives the capital C's in the encoded message?


 

Duncan Sands
1998-12-09