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Python Loops Puzzle: Tenali Raman and the Palace Guards

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A programming exercise uses the Tenali Raman folk tale to teach Python while loops. Tenali Raman must pass several palace gates, each with a guard who demands half of the remaining reward of 1024 lashes. The sample code uses floor division inside a while loop to compute each guard's share until the count drops to one. The output shows guard 1 receiving 512 lashes and guard 10 receiving the final single lash. The puzzle asks readers to determine each guard's share and how many guards there are when only one lash remains.

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