What Is an Algorithm?
An algorithm is a finite list of unambiguous steps for getting from an input to a result. A recipe is one. So is long division. Computers did not invent them and are not required to run them.
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An algorithm is a finite list of unambiguous steps for getting from an input to a result. A recipe is one. So is long division. Computers did not invent them and are not required to run them.
The internet is a set of agreements about how computers pass small chunks of data to each other. No single machine holds it, and nobody is in charge of it.