alt Hacker NewsWell yeah, if you're making the claim that it stores a representation of the data in some form.
Does your calculator app store a representation of the answer to 1+2/2*1.1 and all other combinations of inputs or does it determine the answer from a set of rules?
It's a different case when the input contains more information than the output.
If you put "1+2/2 x 1.1" into a calculator and it spit out a verbatim copy of a New York Times article, does it necessarily contain a representation, or does it just contain some really extensive rules? I'd argue those rules necessarily are a representation of that information, given that it contains far more information than provided by the input.