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More generally, the term ''data processing'' can apply to any process that converts data from one format to another, although ''[[data conversion]]'' would be the more logical and correct term. From this perspective, data processing becomes the process of convering information into data and also the converting of data back into information. The distinction is that conversion doesn't require a question (query) to be answered. For Example, information in the form of an string of characters forming a sentence in English is converted or [[encode]]d at a keyboard into [[ASCII]] code afterwhich it may be more easily processed by a computer and finally converted or [[decode]]d to be displayed as characters on the computer display.
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