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Question 53

An engineer is diagnosing a microchip's 4×4 4 \times 4\,4×4 temperature sensor grid. The Python script in Figure 1 is used to inspect the thermal map shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1

for r in range(4):
    for c in range(4):
        if get_reading(r, c) == "H":
            hotspot_row = r
            hotspot_col = c

Figure 2

column 0column 1column 2column 3
row 0"Normal""Normal""Cool""Normal"
row 1"Cool""Normal""Normal""Normal"
row 2"Normal""Normal""Normal""H"
row 3"Normal""Cool""Normal""Normal"

State the purpose of the program in Figure 1.

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