Whether or not you know it you use them every day you are actually trained to use them as a child and much of the world we live in today is directly or indirectly a result of their use

While they are ideally suited for computers they were actually first developed

thousands of years ago. Learn more about algorithms, what they are, how they

work, and how they impact the world today on this episode of

Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. So, An algorithm is actually a very simple concept. An algorithm is nothing more than a set of rules.

The dictionary definition of an algorithm says it is quote

a finite set of unambiguous instructions that given some set of initial

conditions can be performed in a prescribed sequence to achieve certain goals that has a recognizable set of

end conditions."

End quote.

That sounds complicated, but if you've ever seen or used a decision-making flow chart, that's

an algorithm. An even, that's an algorithm.

An even simpler example of an algorithm

that everyone is probably used is a cooking recipe.

You take certain ingredients, you combine them in a certain way,

you heat them for a set time and temperature, and you get an end result.

At first glance, an algorithm doesn't even seem like that big of a deal.

recipes and sets of instructions are hardly world-shattering.

However, algorithms are a very big deal. The first evidence we have of

algorithms comes from the ancient world. Every ancient culture that had some form of mathematics

used algorithms to do basic mathematical operations. The

Babylonians, Egyptians, Indians, Chinese, and Greeks all used algorithms. If you

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