algorithmicadjective

Examples from literature

"I asked her how to find the calling procedure's program counter on the stack and she came up with an algorithm in real time." 
"That algorithm is bogus." 
Additionally, a more intelligent algorithm may imply more long-term complexity cost and bug-chasing than are justified by the speed improvement. 
The choice for people then is made by some algorithm or calculating machine. 
Those who are convinced that such patterns and algorithms capture the complete essence of the self view this prospect with pleasant anticipation. 

algorithm | American Dictionary

algorithm
noun[ C ]
us/ˈæl·ɡəˌrɪð·əm/
mathematics
a list of instructions for solving a problem

algorithm | Business English

algorithm
noun[ C ]
 ITuk /ˈælɡərɪðəm/us
a set of mathematical instructions that must be followed in a fixed order, and that, especially if given to a computer, will help to calculate an answer to a mathematical problem:
a computer/mathematical/search algorithmThe exchanges created computer algorithm systems to recreate the trading activity.

Examples of algorithm

algorithm
The general idea of the algorithm is as follows.
The following algorithm is used to construct general calottes.
This algorithm used the one-dimensional central section of the filter.
So, permitted deceleration of the mobile robot is restricted by the proposed algorithm.
The upshot of this is that adaptation to nonstationarity does not require qualitative changes in a learning algorithm.
However, the error is quick to decrease and enter the range of error of the other algorithms.
In the epidemiological literature, however, insomnia tends to be defined using a variety of approaches, ranging from rigorous diagnostic algorithms, to single questionnaire items.
Psychological models and learning algorithms should be classified at a more abstract level.
If there are degeneracies in the set, the algorithm returns zero area and a triplet of collinear points.
The algorithm initially creates a population of m individuals by assigning random values to the elements of the genomes.
This paper continues the approach of the second author, of analysing algorithms on random structures using a differential equation method.
We can then measure the average running time of these algorithms on random instances.
The new team-based algorithm took substantially more time to run to completion than the original separable algorithm.
In five well-organised chapters, the authors cover sensors, synthesis and algorithms.
A synthesis procedure has two par ts: a database of building blocks and an algorithm that uses this database for synthesis.
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