These logical comparisons are key to the basic functions an algorithm contains. This flowchart may seem simple enough, but when programmers start to assemble larger pieces of code for complex ...

(For more background, check out our first flowchart ... algorithms use statistics to find patterns in massive* amounts of data. And data, here, encompasses a lot of things—numbers, words, images ...

In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...