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Re:Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The ... by brl on Saturday January 31, 2009 @03:25PM (#460000)
I think it would be hard to argue that any other single modern algorithm had as much effect on the world as RSA.
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Re:Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The ... by corentin on Saturday January 31, 2009 @03:54PM (#460030)
MP3?
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Re:Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The ... by russell on Saturday January 31, 2009 @04:21PM (#460070)
Discrete cosine transform and its variants gave us jpeg and mp3
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Re:Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The ... by brl on Saturday January 31, 2009 @04:28PM (#460076)
Oh, you're absolutely right of course. I completely overlooked that. In that case, I think that the top two prizes should go to one Fourier transform related algorithm and one algorithm from public-key cryptography.
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