So, an algorithm is the process a computer uses to transform input data into output data. A simple concept, and yet every piece of technology that you touch involves many algorithms.

The current installment covers using Newton’s algorithm to do division. Steve Martin had a famous bit about how to be a millionaire and never pay taxes.

Study proposes a communication-efficient, divide and conquer algorithm that combines information from sub-machines using confidence distributions. The theoretical relationship between the number ...