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Computation by computer is not limited only to numeric calculations. In fact, computation has a more broad meaning: manipulation of data or information by algorithms Many commercial program systems and those in the public domain actually have little to do with numeric calculation; their essential functionalities are closely related to dealing with data structures. For example, searching for a data item in a file, or sorting students’ examination results in a list, can be regarded as such kinds of programs.
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Liu, S. (2004). The Set Types. In: Formal Engineering for Industrial Software Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07287-5_8
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