As with all "classic algorithms," its output was deterministic: it produced the same result for the same input every time. It would always finish, and it always produced the optimal, correct result.

BARTOSZ ŹRALEK, A DETERMINISTIC VERSION OF POLLARD'S p – 1 ALGORITHM, Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 79, No. 269 (JANUARY 2010), pp. 513-533 ...

So, an algorithm is the process a computer uses to transform input data into output data. A simple concept, and yet every piece of technology that you touch involves many algorithms.

Addressing the importance of the algorithm design process, Deterministic Operations Research focuses on the design of solution methods for both continuous and discrete linear optimization problems.

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In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...