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Input and output are not functions per se. Input is the raw material that goes into a function or process. Output is the finished product--- it's what the input looks like after it goes through the process. If you are a baker, your input is flour, yeast, water and whatever else a baker needs to make bread. The process or function is all the work the baker does to blend, change, bake and otherwise manipulate the raw materials to end up with bread. The output is the bread. With computer technology, a person may be confronted with unimaginable collections of information on a given topic. The person wants to make order out of the information. He enters it into a computer system that puts the information through various (and sometimes extremely complex) processes. The outcome is (ideally) the information hidden in the raw data.

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