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algorithm

• a way of setting out a step-by-step mathematical procedure.
• a method used to find an answer.
• named after the famous 9th-century Persian astronomer and
mathematician, Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi.

EXAMPLE: Long multiplication steps

algorithm


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