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Representation is an overloaded term in computer science. Colloquially, the term representation represents a concrete object that is the reflection of an abstract object. The representation carries over the properties of the abstract object into a new domain that is presumably more convenient for a purpose the representer has in mind. We use arrays to represent collections of items, we use adjacency lists to represent graphs, Unicode code pointers to represent written language, 64 bit integer...