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The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer AUTH-5106030 or cuttingSimply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds of the greatest thinkers in the world, the algorithm is what made the modern world possible. Without the algorithm, there would have been no computer, no Internet, no virtual reality, no e mail, or any other technological advance that we rely on every day. In The Advent of the Algorithm,