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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 _confirm_constant(a):

 """Confirm `a` has volumn vector of 1s."""

    a = np.asanyarray(a)
    return np.isclose(a, 1.0).all(axis=0).any()