Tactic vs Algorithm - What's the difference?
tactic | algorithm |
(chemistry) Describing a polymer whose repeat units are identical
(dated) tactical; of or relating to the art of military and naval tactics.
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 )
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
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, title= (archaic) Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.
As nouns the difference between tactic and algorithm
is that tactic is a manoeuvre, or action calculated to achieve some end while 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.As an adjective tactic
is (chemistry) describing a polymer whose repeat units are identical.tactic
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Alternative forms
* tactick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Anagrams
*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.}}