When I think of algorithm, I see it as the "how", not the "what". A list of steps to get a task accomplished is the high-level "what". Somewhere in those steps

When I think of algorithm, I see it as the "how", not the "what". A list of steps to get a task accomplished is the high-level "what". Somewhere in those steps you must derive the "how". Reduce those steps to a derivative formula, if you will. That piece of code is pounded, broken, rebuilt, transformed and eventually "fashioned" like coal becomes a diamond. Once "hardended" it will be code that works perfectly with any input, under every scenario. And when it's right, you'll know it, grasshopper - you will know it ;) - The Algorithmist