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What is an algorithm?

( philosophy and intro )

We all use algorithms every day, but what is an algorithm, exactly? By my definition, an algorithm is a formalized procedure to accomplish a task (this is essentially the same as Wikipedia’s).
Not everything you do is an algorithm. Some things we do have no known good algorithm, such as writing a blog entry. […]

Introduction

( intro )

Howdy. This is my blog about algorithms.
Posts will fall into the following categories:

Algorithms assigned as homework problems. These will be tagged as ‘edu’. I welcome submissions via email. I will always follow these guidelines:

I will only post about problems accessible from the “general web”, by which I mean that Google can […]