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		brl on Jan 31, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Send Me Your Nominations for Algorithms That Chang... I think it would be hard to argue that any other single modern algorithm had as much effect on the world as RSA.

corentin on Jan 31, 2009 [–]

MP3?

russell on Jan 31, 2009 | [–]

Discrete cosine transform and its variants gave us jpeg and mp3

brl on Jan 31, 2009 | | [–]

Oh, you're absolutely right of course. I completely overlooked that. In that case, I think that the top two prizes should go to one Fourier transform related algorithm and one algorithm from public-key cryptography.

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