Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The World

Re:Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The ... by greendestiny on Saturday January 31, 2009 @05:32PM (#460168)

Is it a good candidate as an algorithm though? The novel part of pagerank is representing hyperlinks as a connectivity matrix and using the eigenvalues as search ranking. Finding the eigenvalues themselves was not new, and the rest doesn't seem as important in an algorithmic sense.

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Re:Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Changed The ... by 10ren on Sunday February 01, 2009 @09:43PM (#461775)

I don't want you to be right, but... I think you are right. PageRank is an application of an algorithm; seeing a problem in such a way that it can be solved.

I therefore instead nominate the algorithm which Pagerank applies.

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