Cleared Up

I might as well use this snow day to write my blog, right? Anyway, after the Powerpoint in class Tuesday, I thought I had the wrong definition of an algorithm. As an example of an algorithm, a mathematical equation was shown. I thought back to the video I posted last week about how to solve a Rubik’s cube. I didn’t think an equation and Rubik’s cube had much in common. I went to a website (http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~rcorless/AM563/NOTES/Nov_23_95/node5.html) just to clear up algorithms and heuristics for myself. The video did show exact steps for solving the cube, so it must be an algorithm. Although steps are not quite written out like a quadratic formula, they still apply. 

Now, since that's cleared up, could all this snow do the same, please?