18ALGORITHMS
And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupidmachine can deal with, you’ve learned something about it yourself.—Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
An algorithm is a procedure for solving a class of problems. The stdlib and Boost libraries contain a multitude of algorithms that you can use in your programs. Because many very smart people have put a lot of time into ensuring these algorithms are correct and efficient, you should usually not attempt to, for example, write your own sorting algorithm.
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