Nine Algorithms That Changed The Future by John MacCormick
The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers
An accessible tour of the core ideas behind the algorithms that power modern life, explaining in plain language how technologies like web search and ranking, public‑key cryptography and digital signatures, error‑correcting codes, data compression, pattern recognition, databases, and route‑finding work at a high level. Using real‑world examples and minimal math, it demystifies why these methods are fast and reliable, highlights trade‑offs such as efficiency and security, and shows how they make everyday computing possible.
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- 2011
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- British
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- Pages
- 240-256
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- English
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