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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 dot(a, b):
 """Take arrays `a` and `b` and form the dot product between the last axis of `a` and the first of `b`. """

    b = numpy.asarray(b)
    return numpy.dot(a, b.reshape(b.shape[0], -1)).reshape(a.shape[:-1] + b.shape[1:])