Associations to the word «Algorithm»

Wiktionary

ALGORITHM, noun. 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.
ALGORITHM, noun. (archaic) Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.

Dictionary definition

ALGORITHM, noun. A precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem.

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery