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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 up_threshold(x, s, p):
 """function to decide if similarity is below cutoff"""

    if 1.0 * x/s >= p:
        return True
    elif stat.binom_test(x, s, p) > 0.01:
        return True
    return False