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About Exercise 1
Use PTC Mathcad programming operators to locally define variables, set values, and return values calculated in the program. Define your own functions for performing complex calculations that need to be repeated many times.
After completing this exercise, you will be able to perform the following tasks:
Create a new program
Assign values to local variables
Define your own functions
Use PTC Mathcad operators and functions inside the program
Evaluate program output
Return values calculated in the program
Proceed to Task 1–1.