BigDataFr recommends: Algorithms – Turning Data Into Products

Blame Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi. Around 825 AD, he wrote a book entitled « Al-Khwarizmi on the Hindu Art of Reckoning, » basically a math book using the numbers we use today. It was translated into Latin as « Algorithmi de numero Indorum. » From this, we get our current word « algorithm ».

Every software developer knows what an algorithm is — a set of rules that list a set of instructions. The rest of us rely on algorithms for much of our daily Web and mobile interactions, though we’re not always conscious of the important role they play..[…]

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By William Terdoslavich
Source: informationweek.com