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in the ngspice user manual, they call circuit descriptions an "input deck"

https://ngspice.sourceforge.io/docs/ngspice-manual.pdf



"deck" is the fairly normal word throughout the EDA industry. i reckon it's because such things used to be literal decks of punchcards, but i know less about EDA history than programming history.




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