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Question 108

The identifier is_anomaly is used in the monitoring algorithm shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

1  temps ← [18.2, 19.5, 24.1, 28.3, 17.9]
2  is_anomaly ← false
3  threshold ← 25.0
4  k ← 0
5  WHILE k < 5 AND is_anomaly = false
6      IF temps[k] > threshold THEN
7          is_anomaly ← true
8      ELSE
9          k ← k + 1
10     ENDIF
11 ENDWHILE

Explain why using the identifier is_anomaly is a better choice of variable name than using the single-letter identifier a.

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