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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
- 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
- Even if you had the fastest processors and blindingly fast algorithms, a search would still take days.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- Was it the pinpoint accuracy of the algorithms?Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- 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
- The algorithm guessed right more than 95 percent of the time.Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
algorithm = a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem