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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 bench(func):
 """Times a single function."""

    sys.stdout.write("%44s   " % format_func(func))
    sys.stdout.flush()

    # figure out how many times we have to run the function to
    # get reliable timings.
    for i in xrange(3, 10):
        rounds = 1 << i
        t = timer()
        for _ in xrange(rounds):
            func()
        if timer() - t >= 0.2:
            break

    # now run the tests without gc TEST_RUNS times and use the median
    # value of these runs.
    def _run():
        gc.collect()
        gc.disable()
        try:
            t = timer()
            for _ in xrange(rounds):
                func()
            return (timer() - t) / rounds * 1000
        finally:
            gc.enable()

    delta = median(_run() for x in xrange(TEST_RUNS))
    sys.stdout.write("%.4f\n" % delta)
    sys.stdout.flush()

    return delta