foo.ipynb

Kernel: Python 3 (Anaconda)

Programming concepts Introduced using Python and a simple actuarial example

Arithmetic: addition (+), subtraction (-), division (/), and multiplication (*)

1+2-3*4/5

0.6000000000000001

def a(i,n):
    return (1-(1+i)**-n)/i

a(0.02,10)

8.982585006242244

a(0,10)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ZeroDivisionError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-532c08013ec5> in <module>()
----> 1 a(0,10)

<ipython-input-2-02cd6a5a876f> in a(i, n)
      1 def a(i,n):
----> 2     return (1-(1+i)**-n)/i

ZeroDivisionError: float division by zero

def b(i,n):
    if i==0:
        return n
    else:
        return