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Type has historically had the following uses:
- In biology, a type is the specimen or specimens upon which an original species description is based.
- In computer science, a datatype (sometimes referred to as a 'type') is a collection of values used for computation.
- In printing, type refers to the metal forms of the letters used in typesetting.
- In sociology, the terms normal type and ideal type are used.
- In the decades of the 1900s and 1910s, in philosophy, Bertrand Russell used his Theory of Types to further discuss the mapping of mathematics to logic. See Principia Mathematica
- In set theory and musical set theory, see equivalence class.
- In intuitionistic type theory, a type can be a proposition or a set.
See also: Typology, the study of types.
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