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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=computer_science">computer science</a>, <b>canonicalization</b> (sometimes <b>standardization</b> or <b><a href="page.php?w=Normalization_%28statistics%29">normalization</a></b>) is a process for converting <a href="page.php?w=data">data</a> that has more than one possible representation into a "standard", "normal", or <a href="page.php?w=canonical_form">canonical form</a>. This can be done to compare different representations for equivalence, to count the number of distinct data structures, to improve the efficiency of</p><p>
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