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It is sometimes used as a synonym for "software"; although the main part of any software is programs, software also often includes resource files that contain [[data]] of some kind; these are not part of the program per se. An abstract program is sometimes called an [[algorithm]].
Computer programs are now also the subject of [[mathematics]] - for example,
[[algorithmic information theory]] studies the behavior of idealized computers executing [[random]]ly generated computer programs.
An alternative British spelling is '''computer programme''', although this is rare and the British spelling in this context is generally 'program'.
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