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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def acquire_fake_data(number_of_points=1000):
 """ This function generates some fake data and returns two channels of data in the form time_array, [channel1, channel2] """

    # time array
    t = _n.linspace(0,10,number_of_points)

    return(t, [_n.cos(t)*(1.0+0.2*_n.random.random(number_of_points)),
               _n.sin(t      +0.5*_n.random.random(number_of_points))])