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Uit Werkplaats
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We use models as a source of insight or as objects for induction (experiments) and deduction (reasoning) if the real thing is too large, too small, too fast, too slow, too complex, too expensive or otherwise unaccessible.
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A model of a thing is a physical or mathematical object that mimicks some properties of that thing.
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This is a definition from Taxonomy of Computer Science (Hanno Wupper et al. 2008).
