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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 triangle_areas(p1,p2,p3):
 """Compute an array of triangle areas given three arrays of triangle pts p1,p2,p3 - three Nx2 arrays of points """

    v1 = (p2 - p1).astype(np.float)
    v2 = (p3 - p1).astype(np.float)
    # Original:
    #   cross1 = v1[:,1] * v2[:,0]
    #   cross2 = v2[:,1] * v1[:,0]
    #   a = (cross1-cross2) / 2
    # Memory reduced:
    cross1 = v1[:, 1]
    cross1 *= v2[:, 0]
    cross2 = v2[:, 1]
    cross2 *= v1[:, 0]
    a = cross1
    a -= cross2
    a /= 2.0
    del v1, v2, cross1, cross2
    a = a.copy()  # a is a view on v1; shed one dimension.
    a = np.abs(a)
    #
    # Handle small round-off errors
    #
    a[a<np.finfo(np.float32).eps] = 0
    return a