An algorithm — is a specific set of instructions for carrying out a procedure or solving a problem, usually with the requirement that the procedure terminate at some point. Specific algorithms sometimes also go by the name method, procedure, or technique. The word “algorithm” is a distortion of al-Khwārizmī, a Persian mathematician who wrote an influential treatise about algebraic methods. The process of applying an algorithm to an input to obtain an output is called a computation.
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An algorithm — is a word used by programmers when…they don’t want to explain what they did
Remember always that we need to know what some words mean in programming , like in any language but don’t forget to also have fun and joke about them ^^