Sample sentences for ALGORITHM

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Definition

a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

We wrote a computer algorithm to find words that would interest you.

Writing the program code wasn't hard, but specifying the algorithm to solve the problem was challenging.
Anyone can follow an algorithm.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

algorithm = a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

They'd be discussing computer algorithms and I'd be speaking football.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture
"Since we changed the acceleration algorithm, you can push the joystick forward a bit and it won't take off," Cristian coached him.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
That's part of the algorithm.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
Was it the pinpoint accuracy of the algorithms?
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Even if you had the fastest processors and blindingly fast algorithms, a search would still take days.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
He does this automatically, without really thinking, like a computer executing a tried-and-true algorithm.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
The program was known in the navy as the signal algorithmic processing system (SAPS).
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Now it was time to construct an algorithm that could tease some conclusions from this mass of data.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
When Hiro wrote The Black Sun's sword-fighting algorithms -code that was later picked up and adopted by the entire Mets. verse-he discovered that there was no good way to handle the aftermath.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
His path was filled with abrupt twists and turns and about-faces, with erratic loops and figure-eights, with corkscrews and triple lutzes, as though he were following some bizarre algorithm that only he could understand.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
Lennon and McCartney had a musical gift of the sort that comes along once in a generation, and Bill Joy, let us not forget, had a mind so quick that he was able to make up a complicated algorithm on the fly that left his professors in awe.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
Anyone who can come up with such an algorithm is a genius.
Cixin Liu -- The Three-Body Problem
And it wasn't encrypted with some fancy computer algorithm.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
Use the instruction to bypass the processing algorithms.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Apparently, they are like algorithms for carrying out certain activities essential to the society.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
LEITZKE DNA SEARCH ALGORITHM DNA: Version Search Criteria: RANA (all, fragment len > 0) DNA Incorporating RANA Fragments Versions Maiasaurs 2.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
But the algorithm says he shouldn't be.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

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