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An algorithm is just a 'plain text english' statement way of writing out a program; without having to resort to using any 'specific programming language code'. For example,...
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CONCLUSION
As you can see from the above examples which use 'different' programming languages to solve the same task with, namely:
-> QBASIC
-> VBScript
-> Javascript
-> Python
-> etc.
...once you've already gone and created the plain text english language based 'algorithm' to solve a particular problem; then, that 'one' same algorithm, can be readily re-used, over again and again...in conjunction with almost 'any' programming language code...to solve what are, in fact, similar problems.
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Give an example of a backtracking algorithm?
4d + 7 = -15
What symmetric algorithm encrypts data one bit at a time?
Example of a stream cipher
What is sub-algorithm?
It is an algorithm used by another algorithm as part of the second algorithm's operation.As an example, an algorithm for finding the median value in a list of numbers might include sorting the numbers as a sub-algorithm: There are plenty of algorithms for sorting, and the specifics of the sorting does not matter to the "median value" algorithm, only that the numbers are sorted when the sub-algorithm is done.For what an algorithm is, see related link.
What is krushkal algorithm?
Kruskal's algorithm is an algorithm in graph theory that finds a minimum spanning tree for a connected weighted graph. This means it finds a subset of the edges that forms a tree that includes every vertex, where the total weight of all the edges in the tree is minimized. If the graph is not connected, then it finds a minimum spanning forest (a minimum spanning tree for each connected component). Kruskal's algorithm is an example of a greedy algorithm.
What is scatter gather algorithm?
It is a class of algorithms that are fine-tuned towards making the best out of a distributed computing ( similar to cloud computing ) environment. A very good example of such an algorithm is MapReduce (see wikipedia).
