Definitions
Encryption
Japan
An algorithm refer to "methods of combining in a program, instructions given to a computer."[1]
United States
- An algorithm is "[a] prescribed set of well defined rules or processes for the solution of a problem."[2]
- An algorithm is "a step-by-step, problem-solving procedure, especially an established computational procedure for solving a problem in a finite number of steps."[3]
References
- ↑ Japan, Law No. 48 of 1970, Art. 10(3)(III).
- ↑ U.S. Copyright Office, Compendium of Copyright Office Practices II, § 326 (1984).
- ↑ Youth, Pornography, and the Internet, at 407.