Talk:Algorithm: Difference between revisions

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I recommend implementing the selection sort algorithm, whether there will be only the sort algorithm or other ones as example(s). It being simple to understand is an issue, that's the right algorithm. Its correctness is easy to get. [[User:Tcascardo | TCascardo]]

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I don't know how to fix this, but I'd like to point out that the article's etymology of "algorithm" doesn't look entirely coherent. The article seems to provide two different stories:

# It descended from successive translations of an Arabic guy's name.

# It descended from a word in said Arabic guy's chief work, a word which referred to "the rules of performing arithmetic using Arabic numerals"

There seems to be a missing link here somewhere. --[[User:Ryguasu|Ryguasu]] 05:34 Jan 12, 2003 (UTC)