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    Software: Computer Software or Simply Software Is Any Set of Machine-Readable

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    Computer software includes any set of instructions that direct a computer's processor to perform tasks. It contrasts with computer hardware, which is the physical components. Software includes programs, libraries, and documentation. At the lowest level, software consists of machine language instructions specific to a processor. However, software is usually written in high-level programming languages that are easier for humans to use than machine language, and then translated into machine code.

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    Software: Computer Software or Simply Software Is Any Set of Machine-Readable

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    Computer software includes any set of instructions that direct a computer's processor to perform tasks. It contrasts with computer hardware, which is the physical components. Software includes programs, libraries, and documentation. At the lowest level, software consists of machine language instructions specific to a processor. However, software is usually written in high-level programming languages that are easier for humans to use than machine language, and then translated into machine code.

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    Computer software includes any set of instructions that direct a computer's processor to perform tasks. It contrasts with computer hardware, which is the physical components. Software includes programs, libraries, and documentation. At the lowest level, software consists of machine language instructions specific to a processor. However, software is usually written in high-level programming languages that are easier for humans to use than machine language, and then translated into machine code.

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    Software: Computer Software or Simply Software Is Any Set of Machine-Readable

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    Computer software includes any set of instructions that direct a computer's processor to perform tasks. It contrasts with computer hardware, which is the physical components. Software includes programs, libraries, and documentation. At the lowest level, software consists of machine language instructions specific to a processor. However, software is usually written in high-level programming languages that are easier for humans to use than machine language, and then translated into machine code.

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    Software

    Computer software or simply software is any set of machine-readable


    instructions that directs a computer's processor to perform specific
    operations. Computer software contrasts with computer hardware, which is
    the physical component of computers. Computer hardware and software
    require each other and neither can be realistically used without the other.
    Using a musical analogy, hardware is like a musical instrument and software
    is like a sheet music (score).
    Computer software includes computer programs, libraries and their
    associated documentation. The word software is also sometimes used in a
    more narrow sense, meaning application software only.
    At the lowest level, executable code consists of machine language
    instructions specific to an individual processor typically a central processing
    unit (CPU). A machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying
    processor instructions that change the state of the computer from its
    preceding state. For example, an instruction may change the value stored in
    a particular storage location inside the computer an effect that is not
    directly observable to the user. An instruction may also (indirectly) cause
    something to appear on a display of the computer system a state change
    which should be visible to the user. The processor carries out the instructions
    in the order they are provided, unless it is instructed to "jump" to a different
    instruction, or interrupted.
    Software written in a machine language is known as "machine code".
    However, in practice, software is usually written in high-level programming
    languages that are easier and more efficient for humans to use (closer
    to natural language) than machine language. High-level languages are
    translated, using compilation or interpretation or a combination of the two,
    into machine language. Software may also be written in a low-level assembly
    language, essentially, a vaguely mnemonic representation of a machine

    language using a natural language alphabet. Assembly language is


    translated into machine code using an assembler.

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