A step-by-step procedure or set of rules for solving a problem or completing a task. It's a precise sequence of instructions that, when followed, will produce a desired outcome.
Named after Al-Khwarizmi, a 9th-century Persian mathematician whose Latin name was 'Algorithmus.' Originally referred to arithmetic using Arabic numerals, but by the 1950s expanded to mean any systematic problem-solving procedure in computing.
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