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Why are loops called loops?

One thing the SWC training got me thinking about is the word “loop” as in “for loop”. It is something so familiar to me that I never tried to figure out why it is called a loop. I think it must come from computational flow diagrams. Incidentally, I read a book full of vintage flow diagrams recently, as part of my efforts to get up to speed on microsimulation: [Art of Simulation]

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