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Take it or leave it!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

T. J. Fletcher
T. J. Fletcher*
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The development of algorithms has been one of the principal concerns of mathematics throughout its history, but now that machines can perform algorithms more efficiently than people our attitude to algorithms has to adjust. It is hardly possible for a school to implement the National Curriculum in mathematics without having the computer language LOGO among its resources, but the curriculum's prescriptions are minimal, and it is quite possible to introduce the opening steps of the language and then do no more. What further use can be made of the language? In this article I show how LOGO can provide a systematic approach to some traditional problems of combinatorics.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 80 , Issue 487 , March 1996 , pp. 185 - 194
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1996

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