Algorithm Meaning and Definition: The word “Algorithm, is a distortion of “al-khwauizmi”, a Persian mathematician who wrote an influential treatise about algebraic methods. But the algorithm is a Latin word called “algouismus” which means “calculation methods” An algorithm is a sequence of finite instructions often used for calculations and data processing. It is a type of effective method in which a list of well-defined instructions for completing a task will, when given an initial state, proceed through a well-defined series of successive states, eventually terminating in an end state. When the user is telling the computer what to do, he also gets to choose how it is going to be done. To make a computer do anything, we have to write a computer program. To write a computer program, we must tell the computer, step by step, exactly what we want it to do. The computer then “exceeds the program, following each step mechanically, to accomplish the end goal”. An algor...
