For another example, consider this image, ... In the CCSS, it’s actually referred to as the “standard algorithm” for addition and subtraction, ...

But at the level of standard libraries, it's built from a large collection of highly specific functions that handle just one or a few situations. For example, there are separate algorithms for ...

The founding companies of the Numerical Mathematics Consortium -- which include INRIA, Maplesoft, Mathsoft recently acquired by PTC (Nasdaq:PMTC), and National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI ...