After a long discussion with some of my RISC colleagues about what the 5 most important algorithms on the world are, we couldn’t reach a consensus on this question. So I suggested to perform a little survey. The criterion for suggestions was that these algorithms should be widely used. Further we restrict ourselves to the fields of computer science and mathematics.

Link: http://www.risc.jku.at/people/…

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