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Data is the general expression describing all that is operated on by the computer. At the hardware and machine code levels, all data are represented as sequences of binary digits (bits). Higher level languages allow one to use abstractions and to ignore the details of representation—largely by developing the concept of data type.
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Jensen, K., Wirth, N. (1975). The Concept of Data. In: PASCAL User Manual and Report. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37500-5_3
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