Dumb it down for me, what’s an algorithm?

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A recipe for programmers

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Method/approach/ mathematical calculation

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A step by step set of instructions to do something. This includes everything from teaching a child to wipe with a picture book to formal logic about automata.

In practice it's almost always one of these:
- leetcode solution
- type of stats/ML model
- program module
- heuristic implemented in Excel which should've been formalize as a program module

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the whole truth, and nothing but

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In layman terms, sequence of steps you take to solve a problem!!

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an algorithm can be super simple. what’s the algorithm to make coffee using my keurig? - 1.turn on kuerig
2. pick a keurig cup.
3. put keurig cup in keurig thing
4. pick coffee cup
5. put coffee cup under coffee dispenser
6. press an amount of coffee to dispense
7. let coffee fill up coffee cup

we could do one for anything really. how to put a shirt on, how to tie shoes, how to brush teeth.

we also can do them for stuff like how to -reverse a linked list,
-how to sort a list of unsorted numbers, (maybe use merge sort, heap sort or quick sort)
-how to search a list of sorted numbers (binary search)
-how to find duplicates in a list of unsorted numbers (maybe sort first and use binary search, depending on other stuff)

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