algorithm
Pronunciation: /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/
The English word “algorithm” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.
- A flowchart illustrating a decision-making process for human users, especially health care professionals.
- Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.
- software that makes content display determinations on a platform, in totality of effect upon all end users (within a potential audience).
- the influenced zeitgeist: e.g. what content ends up trending or viral, what persons become a main character or cancelled
- the actual personalized selections of content seen by specific user(s), the microtargeting to which they are subject
Etymology
From Middle English algorisme, augrym, from Anglo-Norman algorisme, augrim, from Medieval Latin algorismus, from Arabic الخَوَارِزْمِيّ (al-ḵawārizmiyy), the nisba of Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī and a toponymic name meaning "the Chorasmian". The spelling change (-s- > -th-) was influenced by unrelated Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós) (whence English arithmo-).
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- algorithmic entropy
- algorithmic number theory
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