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<h3 class="section">2.7 Comments in Octave Programs</h3>
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A <dfn>comment</dfn> is some text that is included in a program for the sake
of human readers, and which is NOT an executable part of the program.
Comments can explain what the program does, and how it works. Nearly all
programming languages have provisions for comments, because programs are
typically hard to understand without them.
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