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<p>Fill this want</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>An &#039;&#039;&#039;algorithm&#039;&#039;&#039; is a set of elementary steps, which, if followed precisely, will achieve a defined or desired goal. More advanced algorithms use [[conditional]] steps, included in that set, to divert [[execute|execution]] of the algorithm through various alternative paths through the set of steps.<br /> <br /> By contrast, guidance on a general approach to solving a particular class of problems (especially those that do not have a well-defined correct or optimal result) is called a &#039;&#039;&#039;heuristic&#039;&#039;&#039;.<br /> <br /> An approach to obtaining a result, which otherwise looks like an algorithm, but uses random data as one of its inputs, may or may not be an algorithm, depending on the exact formal definition of &#039;algorithm&#039; which is used. (The famous &#039;Monte Carlo&#039; heuristic, used in modeling complex systems, is an example.)<br /> <br /> All [[program]]s include (nay, &#039;&#039;instantiate&#039;&#039;) an algorithm. The &#039;&#039;concept&#039;&#039; of an algorithm, however, long pre-dates the invention of [[computing device]]s; the concept appeared in Medieval mathematics, and was later an obvious natural for use by such devices.<br /> <br /> The Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote the first major work including the idea around 825 AD; by around 1230, the Latinization of his name, &#039;Algorismi&#039;, had come into use in the West to name such approaches. The name has remained, to honour him.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Basics]]</div>

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