There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.
CodeInText: Indicates code words in the text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The for statement has two important keywords: break and else."
A block of code is set as follows:
t=symbols('t')
x=[0,t,1]
# The Vandermonde Matrix
V = Matrix([[0, 0, 1], [t**2, t, 1], [1, 1,1]])
y = Matrix([0,1,-1]) # the data vector
a = simplify(V.LUsolve(y)) # the coefficients
# the leading coefficient as a function of the parameter
a2 = Lambda(t,a[0])
