Dijkstra's algorithm (to find the shortest path between two nodes) was published in June 1959 , so it's about to enjoy its 50th birthday. The great thing about fundamental algorithms is that they can be applied in all kinds of different ways. Dijkstra's algorithm obviously applies to real...
With Easter approaching, I was thinking about the calculation for Easter day. Back in the 1970s I had one of the first affordable programmable calculators, the Sinclair Cambridge Programmable , and this came with a book of algorithms for calculating all kinds of interesting things, mainly science and...