A Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition
. Procedure for answering a given problem or type of problem by the properly disciplined applying of certain already established steps which are guaranteed to yield the answer. The procedures for long division and for extracting a square root are algorithms in arithmetic. See also DECIDABLE, HEURISTIC, RECURSIVE.
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