Algorithm vs Panacea - What's the difference?
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A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.
* 1990 , Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms'': page 1. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1999 (''23rd printing )
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A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
Something that will solve all problems.
(obsolete) A particular plant believed to provide a cure-all.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
As nouns the difference between algorithm and panacea
is that algorithm is a precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps while panacea is a remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.As a proper noun Panacea is
the goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives). She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.algorithm
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(wikipedia algorithm)Alternative forms
* algorism (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Informally, an algorithm''''' is any well-defined computational procedure that takes some value, or set of values, as input and produces some value, or set of values, as output. An ' algorithm is thus a sequence of computational steps that transform the input into the output.
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
Hyponyms
(hyp-top) * approximation algorithm * checksum algorithm * classification algorithm * compression algorithm * computer arithmetic algorithm * distributed algorithm * divide and conquer algorithm (hyp-mid) * genetic algorithm * greedy algorithm * parallel algorithm * randomized algorithm * randomized algorithm * semi-algorithm * sequential algorithm (hyp-bottom)Usage notes
* Though some technical definitions require that an algorithm always terminate in a finite number of steps, this distinction is not generally observed in practice.See also
* data structure * function * programAnagrams
* logarithm English eponyms English terms derived from Arabic English terms derived from Persianpanacea
English
Noun
- A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
- There, whether it diuine Tobacco'' were, / Or ''Panachæa'' , or ''Polygony , / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...].
