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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 update_slice(self, blob):
 """Update the slice proposal scale based on the relative size of the slices compared to our initial guess."""


        nexpand, ncontract = blob['nexpand'], blob['ncontract']
        self.scale *= nexpand / (2. * ncontract)