The power of Python trumps Excel workbooks.

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While certainly possible, this is not a practical method of recording this data. Suppose the program needed to record 100 scores? 100 variables would be required! Note - some programming languages ...

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While certainly possible, this is not a practical method of recording such data. Suppose the program needed to record 100 scores? 100 variables would be required!

Also test the isscalar function (which is deliberately a bit more lax).