Implement a rocket launch countdown.

To do this we would create a function with a simple loop that iterates downwards and prints the numbers downwards. Then at the end of the loop we would simply print 'blast off'.def countdown (n): while n > 0: print (n) n = n - 1 print ("blast off")

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