Algorithms For Dummies

Adapting the strategy to the problem

Part 5 of this book looks at strategies you can use to decrease the cost of working 

with algorithms. The best mathematicians use tricks to get more output from less 

computing. For example, you can create an ultimate algorithm to solve an issue, or 

you can use a host of simpler algorithms to solve the same issue, but using multiple 

processors. The host of simple algorithms will usually work faster and better than 

the single, complex algorithm, even though this approach seems counterintuitive.