It's on the computer.
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If you wanted to build yourself a space shuttle, or perhaps put solar heating in your house, you'd probably start learning from a book. We're all familiar with this way of storing information, or as it's known in computer jargon 'data', which has been around for thousands of years but now it's running into trouble. Because information is growing at an incredible rate, that leaves us with two problems- what are we going to do with all this paper, and secondly, how do we find our way around all this paper? What we can do to reduce the size of all this data is to put it onto a computer. To do that we have to convert the words, the characters, and the numbers into patterns that the computer itself can handle.
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