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A computer program that implements a theoretical model, for example a program written with the goal of understanding this model, is a peculiar written representation of this model. It is therefore an expression of scientific knowledge, much like a textbook or a journal article. We will see in the following chapters that much scientific knowledge can be expressed in the form of computer programs, and that much of today’s scientific knowledge exists in fact only in the form of computer programs, because the traditional scientific knowledge representations cannot handle complex structured information. This raises important questions for the future of computational science, which I will return to in chapter 7.