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V. SarcarParallel Programming with C# and .NEThttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0488-5_1

1. Understanding Tasks

Vaskaran Sarcar1  
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Modern-day life is full of work. Consider those working mothers who need to complete a lot of housework before they go to the office. You may see them performing all these activities asynchronously. For example, they start preparing breakfast, and they come back from the kitchen to prepare the kids for school. Then they go back to the kitchen to check the status of the food only to leave the kitchen to start preparing themselves for the ...

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