Mercer's theorem is a way to understand how data is organized in computer programming. It says that if you want to find out how two pieces of data are related, you divide one piece of data by the other, and then look for patterns in the result. For example, if you want to figure out how temperature is related to the time of day, you could divide the temperature readings by the time readings and look for patterns. Mercer's theorem is used to figure out relationships between different kinds of data before writing a computer program to solve a problem.