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Peer-to-peer definition

Question
What is peer-to-peer networking? 
Answer
Peer-to-peer networking enables direct communication or sharing of information between individual users (or more specifically, their computers).

The power of peer-to-peer is its ability to harness the power or data of a large number of decentralized computers, thereby providing capabilities that would be difficult, expensive, or time consuming on a single large computer. 
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