Recompute scores from a restored report

A journey through keep enough of a calculation to run it again with Botie.

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Keeping Numerical Results Usable by the Next Program

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Scientific programs need to exchange data and repeat earlier calculations. Plain text is inspectable, but it does not automatically preserve every array's type, shape, labels, or full numerical precision.

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NumPy binary format
Saving named arrays
Text array input

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