Eternity in an Instant/Stone via Getty Images Finally, the last step of an algorithm is output – expressing the answer. To a computer, output is usually more data, just like input.

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A professor let students pick which computer algorithm would predict game winners, leading to brackets ranked among 99th percentile across the U.S.