Facts and information about something is called 'data'. This information includes numbers, words, pictures, symbols, opinions, etc. These facts are meaningless and beyond the comprehension of common man. Data is gathered from various sources.
The data is later processed through various means to make new data (meaningful data). Since computer is an electronic machine. Therefore the process of processing data by computer is called EDP i.e. Electronic Data Processing.
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