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Informally, an algorithm is a set of explicit instructions used to solve a problem (e.g. Euclid's algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor of two integers). For more specific questions on algorithms, this tag may be used in conjunction with the approximation-algorithms, algorithmic-randomness and algorithmic-topology tags.

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[Matrices over Z] - An algorithm for calculating the diagonal with elementary operations

Dear mathoverflow, Let $ \left( \begin{array}{cc} a & b \newline c & d \end{array} \right) $ be a matrix with $a, b, c, d \in \mathbb{Z}$, $\gcd(a,b,c,d) = 1$ and $ad - bc = \pm N$, with $N > 0$. Doe …
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