But first the benefits will accrue to high-end uses, the kinds of applications IBM itself is targeting in which intuitive computing will change the game as much as mathematical computing did for banks and computer games.

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Safin had lost both of his first two games in the tournament, but still had a mathematical chance of going through if he could beat Hewitt.

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