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You
are reading email and your friend living outside the US says
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the
temperature is 38o
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That’s
Celsius, of course. What is it in Fahrenheit? Is it hot or
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cold,
you wonder. Why doesn’t your
computer have a Celsius-
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to-Fahrenheit
converter?
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This
situation arises all of the time … there are many things a
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computer
could do for you, but the software is not available
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You
can step through the process yourself, i.e. convert to
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Centigrade
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But
what you’d like is to solve the problem once-and-for-all and
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have
the solution packaged-up to be always available
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What
you want is a procedure
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