What is an algorithm?
Source: Eleanor Burns
Term named after one of the fathers of algebra.
Put simply, a computer program tells a computer what to do, with the algorithm giving the step by step instructions for how the computer should do it.
The word algorithm originates from Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian mathematician, astronomer, scholar and geographer, whose Latinized name Algoritmi inspired the term. He is also considered one of the fathers of algebra.
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