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  • DonnerWolfBach@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I do not think most people know about the computer science definition of algorithm involving discrete steps. For average people I feel like your definiton of “any system that automatically sorts or elecits information, apart from responding to user input” is the only one known.

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      1 year ago

      You may be right, I’m not really sure. And in this case, this is still what people are referring to colloquially.