Talk:Algorithm: Difference between revisions

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:The whole idea of an encyclopedia is to explain basic concepts to people who don't know '''anything''' about them, including (or especially) 10 or 12 year-old-olds. I respectfully submit that anyone who knows what a "greatest common divisor" is (and probably anybody who knows what an "integer" is) '''already knows''' what an "algorithm" is. It's okay to put in the stuff that reads like a math textbook, but before that you need introductory material for the ordinary people that are never going to read past that expanded definition in lay terms. What you should really do is write something dynamic that would show a bubble sort of a short alpha list that wouldn't take an explanation at all but would show the items swapping and bubbling up the list. -- [[User:Isis|isis]] 22:46 Oct 8, 2002 (UTC)

:: GCD and HCF are usually covered at junior school level (10-12). Integers are probably called "whole numbers" at that stage, but the concept is graspable. I'm not sure at what age one encounters a term like "algorithm". Later, I think. -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]] 22:50 Oct 8, 2002 (UTC)