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Computers can help students perform mathematical operations and solve difficult questions. They can be used to teach courses such as computer-aided design, language learning, programming, mathematics, etc. PCs are also used for administrative purposes: for example, school use databases and word processors to keep records of students, teachers and materials. Race(сосьязания) organizers and journalists rely on computers to provide them with the current positions of riders and teams in both the particular stages of the race and in an overall competition.

Workstations in the race buses provide the timing system and give up-to-the-minute timing information to TV stations. In the press room several PCs give real-time information on the state of the race. Computer databases are also used in the drug-detecting tests for competitors. Computers store information about the amount(количество) of money held by each client and enable staff to access large databases and to carry out financial transactions at high speed.

They also control the automatic cash dispensers(раздавать), which, by the use of a personal coded card, dispense money to clients. Airline pilots use computers to help them control the plane. For example, monitors display data about fuel consumption (потребление) and weather conditions. In airport control towers, computers are used to manage radar systems and regulate air traffic. On the ground, airlines are connected to travel agencies by computer.

Computers and microchips have become part of our everyday lives: we visit shops and offices, which have been designed with the help of computers, we read magazines, which have been produced on computer, we pay bills prepared by computers. Just picking up a telephone and dialing a number involves the use of a sophisticated computer system, as does making a flight reservation or bank transaction. We encounter(сталкиваться) daily many computers that spring(появляться) to life the instance(пример) they are switched on (e.g. calculations, the car’s electronic ignition, the timer in the microwave, or the programmer inside the TV set), all of which use chip technology.