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The term "Algorithm" is often used imprecisely. Most of the time it doesn't matter, but sometimes it does. Specifically, an algorithm: * starts with a well-defined state * is an explicit sequence of instructions ** each instruction takes the current state and returns a new state * is guaranteed to terminate. The transition from one state to the next is not necessarily deterministic; some algorithms, known as probabilistic algorithms, incorporate randomness. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm Examples include * Sieve of Eratosthenes for finding prime numbers * Euclidean algorithm for finding the GCD of two numbers