A Study of the Physical Structure of Algorithms

1 May 1977

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Vol. SE-3 (3) , 250-258
https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1977.231134

Abstract

A theory of the structural composition of an algoithm is presented which allows the frequencies of occurrence of the individual operators and operands to be estimated. It provides justification for some recent hypotheses which suggest certain functional relationships between properties of algorithms.

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