algorithm
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Etymology[edit]
From French algorithme; from the Old French algorisme (“the Arabic numeral system”), a modification likely due to a mistaken connection with Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmos); from Medieval Latin algorismus, a transliteration of Arabicized form of the name of the Persian mathematician al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي (“native of Khwarezm”)).
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- algorism (obsolete)
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Noun[edit]
algorithm (plural algorithms)
- A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.
- 1990, Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms: page 1. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1999 (23rd printing)
- Informally, an algorithm is any well-defined computational procedure that takes some value, or set of values, as input and produces some value, or set of values, as output. An algorithm is thus a sequence of computational steps that transform the input into the output.
- 1990, Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms: page 1. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1999 (23rd printing)
- (archaic) Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.
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Usage notes[edit]
- Though some technical definitions require that an algorithm always terminate in a finite number of steps, this distinction is not generally observed in practice.
Translations[edit]
well-defined procedure
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