Like search engine ranking systems

Usage examples of algorithmic.

Within the dark glistening of the corridors, where surface speaks to surface in tiny whispers like fingers, and the larger codes, the extirpated skeletons of a billion minds, clack together in a cemetery of logic, shaking hands, continually shaking bony, algorithmic hands and observing strict and necessary protocol for the purposes of destruction.

Something in the slurry of Carbuncle grist would not let the algorithmic security cops that patrolled the virtuality do their job here and keep the programming from intermingling with its surroundings however it so chose.

Despacio had been a convert like herself, and his music was only fully enjoyable by an algorithmic being, some claimed.

The beauty of the system was directly tied to its physics and, for Claude, more importantly, its algorithmic language.

The Rules was the not-quite-sentient algorithmic director of the orphanage where Kwame Neiderer grew up.

The ship doors closed behind him, and he concealed an algorithmic turbulence, what in human terms he would have called an intellectual panicnot at the closed spaces of the ship, but at the opening flowers of curiosity within his own mind!

Look pal, I'm not just any beast, I'm algorithmic, heuristic and sadistic, fully automatic and autocratic, that means undemocratic, and I've got loads of loops and plenty of feedback so none of that back talk or I'll clap you in irons, that means in the clink with the King, in the brig with the green gig, get me?

As is clearly stated in the novel (Chapter 16), HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer.