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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 set_epoch(self, year):
 """Updates the epoch for all subsequent conversions. Parameters ========== year : float Decimal year """


        fa.loadapxsh(self.datafile, np.float(year))
        self.year = year