Their speed has allowed them to make decisions about routing telephone connections through a network and to control mechanical systems such as automobiles, nuclear reactors, and robotic surgical tools. Their capacity to handle large amounts of data has extended the range and accuracy of weather forecasting. However, as any information can be numerically encoded, people soon realized that computers are capable of general-purpose information processing.
The first computers were used primarily for numerical calculations.
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