In 1960, a 23-year-old Soviet mathematician named Anatoly Karatsuba stunned the world of mathematics with a revolutionary ...

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.

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