The computer is a tool for storage, manipulation, and presentation of data. The data may be numbers, text, or images, but no matter what the data are, they must be coded into a sequence of 0s and 1s. For each type of data, there are several ways of coding that can be used to store the data and specific ways the data may be manipulated.
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(2007). Numerical Methods. In: Matrix Algebra. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70873-7_10
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