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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 _strvar(a, prec='{:G}'):
 r"""Return variable as a string to print, with given precision."""

    return ' '.join([prec.format(i) for i in np.atleast_1d(a)])