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  1. A computer is a programmable electronic
  2. device that processes data and performs
  3. calculations and other symbol-manipulation
  4. tasks. There are three types of computers:
  5. the digital computer, which manipulates 
  6. information coded as binary numbers, the
  7. analogue computer, which works with 
  8. continuously varying quantities, and the
  9. hybrid computer, which has characteristics
  10. of both analogue and digital computers. 
  11.  
  12. Subject by: Samantha Good
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