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6.11. Exercises 61sum = x + y + zpow = b(sum)**2return powx = 1y = x + 1print c(x, y+3, x+y)Exercise 6.5 The Ackermann function, A(m,n),isdefined 3 :⎧⎪⎨ n+1 ifm=0A(m,n)= A(m−1,1) ifm>0and n=0⎪⎩A(m−1,A(m,n−1)) ifm>0and n>0.(6.1)Write a function named ack that evaluates Ackerman’s function. Use your function to evaluateack(3, 4),which should be125. What happens for larger values ofmandn?Exercise 6.6 A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same backward and forward, like “noon”and “redivider”. Recursively, a word is a palindrome if the first and last letters are the same and themiddle isapalindrome.The following arefunctions that take astringargument and returnthefirst,last,and middle letters:def first(word):return word[0]def last(word):return word[-1]def middle(word):return word[1:-1]We’ll seehow they work inChapter 8.1. Type these functions into a file named palindrome.py and test them out. What happens ifyou call middle with a string with two letters? One letter? What about the empty string,which iswritten'' and contains noletters?2. Write a function called is_palindrome that takes a string argument and returns True if it isa palindrome and False otherwise. Remember that you can use the built-in function len tocheck thelength of astring.Exercise 6.7 A number, a, is a power of b if it is divisible by b and a/b is a power of b. Write afunction calledis_powerthat takes parametersaandband returnsTrueifaisapower ofb.Exercise6.8 Thegreatestcommondivisor(GCD)ofaandbisthelargestnumberthatdividesbothof them withno remainder 4 .3 Seewikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function.4 ThisexerciseisbasedonanexamplefromAbelsonandSussman’sStructureandInterpretationofComputerPrograms.