Post as a reply your example of "data, which is processed into information" case - examples should not necessarily be related to computers.

What is the worst-case complexity of the maxrepeats function? assume that the longest string in the names array is at most 25 characters wide (i.e., string comparison can be treated as o( class namecounter { private: int* counts; int nc; string* names; int nn; public: namecounter (int ncounts, int nnames); int maxrepeats() const; }; int namecounter: : maxrepeats () { int maxcount = 0; for (int i = 0; i < nc; ++i) { int count = 1; for (int j = i+1; j < nc; ++j) { if (names[i] == names[j]) ++count; } maxcount = max(count, maxcount); } return maxcount; }

How many nibbles can be stored in a 16-bit word?

What is a scenario where records stored in a computer frequently need to be checked