# Not only for technical computing: changing the narrative around the usecase for Julia

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> [@Tamas\_Papp](#):
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> (numerical computing∪string mangling)⊂technical computing

See that’s the other thing about me: don’t know math very well. I had to go on Wikipedia to discover that this means the union of numeric computing and string wrangling is a subset of technical computing. Cultures in conflict! 🤣

In my particular case, I’m sort of fixing broken metadata in a library catalog. I’m just some kind of digital humanities janitor. It doesn’t _feel_ like technical computing to me, but maybe I need to broaden my definition.

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