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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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How to generate a net on a 8-dimensional sphere

If you're looking for points on the 8-dimensional sphere, another thing you could do is go to Neil Sloane's table of spherical codes, scroll down until you get to dimension 8, and obtain a sphere cove …
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Optimally directing switches for a random walk

This is the simple stochastic games problem, but for only one player, and there is a polynomial-time algorithm for it based on linear programming, which is described in Anne Condon's paper "On Algorithms
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