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def toCash(amount):
	pounds,pence = divmod(amount, 1)
	pounds = int(pounds)
	pence = pence*100
	pence = int(round(pence))
	notes = [50, 20, 10, 5, 1]   #These are the whole amounts Yes I know the £1 & £2 are coins in the UK!
	coins = [50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1]  #These are the less than whole amounts eg the pence
	for note in notes:
		count = pounds / note
		if count >= 1:

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def normalise(number):
  if re.match("^00.*", number):
		return number.lstrip("0")
	elif re.match("^0[1-9].*", number):
		return "44" + number.lstrip("0")
	elif re.match("^\+44.*", number)
		return number.lstrip("+")
	else:
		return number

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var timer = false;

function doSomething(){
  if (timer == false){
		console.log("DOING SOMETHING");
		timer = true;
		console.log("Timer is set")
		setTimeout(function(){timer = false;
			console.log("Timer is clear")
								},10000);

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(Examples written using httpie as a command line tool) 

username and password are the values you use on the tropo web portal

Request a selection of avalible numbers for a given city prefix in this case 415 (San Francisco)

http --auth username:password GET http://api.tropo.com/addresses available==1 prefix==1415

This will return a JSON object as below that contains a selection of avalible numbers

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#! /usr/bin/env node

var Bleacon = require('bleacon');
var uuid = '842AF9C408F511E39282F23C91AEC05E';
var major = 65000; 
var measuredPower = -59; 

function myLoop(){
	setTimeout(function () {
		Bleacon.stopAdvertising();

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import requests 
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

aauser = 'xx99@a'
aapass = 'xxxxx'

def getQuota():
	r = requests.get('https://clueless.aa.net.uk/main.cgi', auth=(aauser, aapass))
	soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text)
	qstring = soup.find_all('table')[1].find('tbody').find_all('td')[5].find('a').string

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#!/usr/bin/python

import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer
import logging
import cgi

PORT = 8001
I = '0.0.0.0'

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Here is a hypothetical example I don't know if this is legal and correct but this is my idea.

Sam Systems Ltd. earns £10k from consulting work for Acme Mega Corp.

As SS is VAT registered on the flat rate scheme eh invoices 12K and pays £1680 of that to HMRC as VAT

He then takes the remaining £10320 and invests that in R&D of a prototype new product as follows:

He spends 2 months of his time building a back end system paying himself a minimal salary of £663/month

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#! /usr/bin/env python

import requests #we're going to use the requests library for a nice HTTP
import json #and the JSON library for parsing the data

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# We need to specify our api key here to use in the request
apikey = "XXXXXX"

#Now we'll setup the base url for the ons API
baseurl = "http://data.ons.gov.uk/ons/api/data/dataset/"

# We need to specify the dataset we are after, in this case its just the split of gender
dataset = "QS104EW" 

#And pass in some of our parameters