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A '''subroutine package''' (commonly called a '''library''') is a group of [[subroutine]]s which support some particular functionality.

On early machines which did not support [[floating point]], it was common to have a floating point library. For commercial applications, which often use [[binary-coded decimal]] for arbitrary-[[precision]] numbers, a library implementing them was often provided on machines which lacked hardware support for BCD.

In the [[C (programming language)|C]] [[programming language]], which does not include I/O as part of the language, the [[Standard I/O Library]] is a [[portable]] way to peform I/O.

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 For example, on early machines which did not support [[floating point]] in [[hardware]], it was common to have a floating point library. For commercial applications, which often use [[binary-coded decimal]] for arbitrary-[[precision]] numbers, a library implementing them was often provided on machines which lacked hardware support for BCD.
-In the [[C (programming language)|C]] [[programming language]], which does not include I/O as part of the language, the [[Standard I/O Library]] is a [[portable]] library which provides a standard way to peform I/O on many systems which C runs on.
+In the [[C programming language]], which does not include [[input/output]] as part of the language, the [[standard I/O library]] is a [[portable]] library which provides a standard way to perform I/O on many systems which C runs on.
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-A '''subroutine package''' (commonly called a '''library''') is a group of [[subroutine]]s which support some particular functionality.
+A '''subroutine package''' (often called a 'library') is a group of [[subroutine]]s which support some particular functionality.
-On early machines which did not support [[floating point]], it was common to have a floating point library. For commercial applications, which often use [[binary-coded decimal]] for arbitrary-[[precision]] numbers, a library implementing them was often provided on machines which lacked hardware support for BCD.
+For example, on early machines which did not support [[floating point]] in [[hardware]], it was common to have a floating point library. For commercial applications, which often use [[binary-coded decimal]] for arbitrary-[[precision]] numbers, a library implementing them was often provided on machines which lacked hardware support for BCD.
-In the [[C (programming language)|C]] [[programming language]], which does not include I/O as part of the language, the [[Standard I/O Library]] is a [[portable]] way to peform I/O.
+In the [[C (programming language)|C]] [[programming language]], which does not include I/O as part of the language, the [[Standard I/O Library]] is a [[portable]] library which provides a standard way to peform I/O on many systems which C runs on.