Comment on BookWyrm: Fediverse for book readers
DonnerWolfBach@feddit.de 8 months agoI do not think most people know about the computer science definition of algorithm involving discrete steps. For average people I feel like your definiton of “any system that automatically sorts or elecits information, apart from responding to user input” is the only one known.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 8 months ago
You may be right, I’m not really sure. And in this case, this is still what people are referring to colloquially.