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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 decode_arr(data):
 """Extract a numpy array from a base64 buffer"""

    data = data.encode('utf-8')
    return frombuffer(base64.b64decode(data), float64)