Algorithm vs. Scheme

Ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. 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.

(archaic) Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.

a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem; a set of procedures guaranteed to find the solution to a problem.

a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm ( (listen)) is a finite sequence of well-defined, computer-implementable instructions, typically to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are always unambiguous and are used as specifications for performing calculations, data processing, automated reasoning, and other tasks.

A systematic plan of future action.

A plot or secret, devious plan.

An orderly combination of related parts.

A chart or diagram of a system or object.

(mathematics) A type of topological space.

A council housing estate.

(rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

(astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

(internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

(intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

Example: ‘The appearance and outward scheme of things.’; ‘Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity.’; ‘Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy.’; ‘The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life.’;

A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.

Example: ‘The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.’;

Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

Example: ‘To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France.’;

A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

Example: ‘A blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity.’; ‘He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief;'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death.’; ‘Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours;I founded palaces, and planted bowers.’;

To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.

Example: ‘That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction.’;

To form a scheme or schemes.

an elaborate and systematic plan of action

a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole;

Example: ‘a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going’;

an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

a schematic or preliminary plan

form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

devise a system or form a scheme for