Answer

• You might want to send the results of your program to a file in order to save them for later, incorporate them into a report, or print them out.

  (2) You might want to use the results of your program as the input for another program. Your program writes to a file, and the other program then reads from the same file. At the end of this lesson, you will use exactly this technique to communicate with Maple.

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