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Re: We never bother running a computer program unless we don't know the output and we know an important fact about the output.
That is incorrect. We do not just run computer programs to learn things we also run them to do things.
For example, we use computer programs to automate common tasks. Say I want the numbers from 1 to 100 printed down the left side of a piece of paper. It would be reasonable to write a Python script to do that. Not because there is something unknown about the output, but because a computer and a printer can do it faster, better and more repeatably than I can.