The facts are data, and the useful information is knowledge for people, instructions for machines or input for yet another algorithm. There are many common examples of algorithms, from sorting ...

The computer system can quickly tell when we have input the incorrect credit card information since the Luhn algorithm has been incorporated into those systems’ programming. Without it ...

That’s because algorithms are still a “black box”: while researchers understand how they generally function, it’s often unclear why a specific output follows a particular input.