A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Algorithm (Software Logic)

Table of Contents

About

GCD-through-successive-subtractions.svg
Flowchart of using successive substractions to find the greatest common divisor of number r and s

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation1. They are sequential and parallel computational procedures for solving a wide range of problems2.

Anki

References


  1. Wikipedia. “algorithm”. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm. (Accessed: [2025-05-07 Wed 17:43]). ↩︎

  2. Wikipedia. “Outline of computer science”. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_science. (Accessed: [2025-06-05 Thu 20:18]). ↩︎

Related Posts