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LOOPS


                 The act  of  repeating  an  action  again  and  again  is  called                Factopedia
                 looping.
                 Let us understand loops with the help of an example.






                                                                                                'Sub1 Reloaded' is
                 You can observe that first Harry
                 goes up towards the sky.                                                       the fastest robot to
                                                                                               solve a Rubik's Cube
                                                                                                (in 0.637 seconds),
                                                                                                built by Albert Beer
                                                                                                   (Germany).



                                                   In the second round, Harry
                                                   and Jerry are both at the
                                                   same level.









                                                                                                   If there was a
                 In the third round, Jerry is at                                              computer as powerful
                 a higher level. Thus, the cycle                                                as human brain, it
                 goes on.                                                                       would be able to do

                 Repeating a set of steps is a                                                  38 thousand trillion
                 loop.                                                                            operations per
                                                                                                      second.


                           Let’s BaCk-uP

                      Reasoning and Problem Solving are used in the stepwise

                     process to do any task.
                      Problem Solving is the process of finding solutions to a                 A computer can only
                     difficult task.                                                            work using step by

                      The process of completing one step and going onto the                   step instructions from
                                                                                               us. Giving these step-
                     other is known as stepwise thinking.                                     by-step instructions is

                      The act of repeating an action again and again is called                 called programming.
                     looping.



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