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Written in prose but much closer to the high-level language of a computer program, the following is the more formal coding of the algorithm in pseudocode or pidgin code:
Written in prose but much closer to the high-level language of a computer program, the following is the more formal coding of the algorithm in pseudocode or pidgin code:
Input: A non-empty list of numbers ''L''.
Output: The ''largest'' number in the list ''L''.
''largest'' ← ''L''<sub>0</sub>
'''for each''' ''item'' '''in''' the list ''L<sub>≥1</sub>'', '''do'''
'''if''' the ''item'' > ''largest'', '''then'''
''largest'' ← the ''item''
'''return''' ''largest''
=== Algorithmic analysis ===
=== Algorithmic analysis ===