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General Science, Mathematics, and Technology

Computers

What is GIGO?

GIGO is not a computer language despite its similarity to the names of computer languages; instead it is an acronym for the truism that one gets out of something what one puts into it. GIGO stands for the phrase “Garbage In, Garbage Out.” The phrase means that a program working with imprecise data produces imprecise results.



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