Lists of commonly abused words are popular on the Internet: words like "literally," "loose" (for "lose), "unique," and "ultimate". I'd like to propose another word for these lists: "algorithm
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Beg to differ. A quick look at Wiktionary turns up "randomized algorithm" and "approximation algorithm"; I'm a little surprised they don't mention "heuristic algorithm", but back when I was a grad student in CS the term was definitely current.
Wikipedia goes on to note that any given computable function may have multiple algorithms that compute it.
Whether, and under what conditions, an algorithm is *correct* is another matter entirely.
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Wikipedia goes on to note that any given computable function may have multiple algorithms that compute it.
Whether, and under what conditions, an algorithm is *correct* is another matter entirely.
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