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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion lectures/five_preferences.md
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Expand Up @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ We begin with some that we'll use to create some graphs.

```{code-cell} ipython3
# Package imports
import shutil
import numpy as np
import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
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```{code-cell} ipython3
:tags: [hide-input]

plt.rc('text', usetex=True)
# Render text with LaTeX only where a latex binary exists (the build has
# texlive); on latex-less runtimes such as Colab, fall back to mathtext
# instead of raising at the first rendered figure.
plt.rc('text', usetex=bool(shutil.which('latex')))
plt.rc('font', size=18)
plt.rc('axes', labelsize=20, titlesize=24)
plt.rc('xtick', labelsize=18)
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