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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 _scatter(sequence, n):
 """Scatters elements of ``sequence`` into ``n`` blocks."""

  chunklen = int(math.ceil(float(len(sequence)) / float(n)))

  return [
    sequence[ i*chunklen : (i+1)*chunklen ] for i in range(n)
  ]