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functional decomposition

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Breaking down a process into non-redundant operations. In structured programming, it provides a hierarchical breakdown of the program into the individual operations, or routines, that are required.

Functional Decomposition of a Program
This example is ultra simplistic, but shows the hierarchical breakdown of the program into its constituent components.
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