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The reader certainly doesn’t need to be told that the use of computers for computing, for getting numerical answers to numerical problems, is widespread. So is the use of computers to manipulate symbolic information in the form of address lists, shopping lists, and so on — usually referred to as word processing.
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Rayna, G. (1987). Introduction. In: Reduce. Symbolic Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4806-4_1
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