While this buyer’s guide is dedicated to GPS units, there are viable alternatives to GPS cycling computers in the form of GPS watches and smartphones. Many of the best cycling watches will record your cycling data much like a GPS cycling computer. They have the added benefit of having built-in heart rate monitors but don’t have the same mapping and navigation capabilities as many cycling GPS computers. If you do more than cycling - for instance running, swimming or indeed triathlon - GPS watches are a good choice for their versatility. But a major downside to these devices is the smaller screen size, so if you’re planning to keep the device on your bike, you’re better off with a cycling-specific unit. Smartphones are ideal if you’re looking for a way of navigating around town and don’t want to invest in a dedicated cycling device, or simply dip a toe in the world of GPS navigation and ride recording. Smartphones can be used with apps such as Strava and might prove just as useful as a cycling computer for casual riding. There are many smartphone handlebar mounts and cases available to keep your phone safe and secure while riding, but they are likely to be less waterproof than cycling-specific computers. That said, keeping the phone in your pocket or pack remains an option for data collection. Matthew Loveridge (formerly Allen) is BikeRadar's former senior writer, an experienced mechanic, and an expert on bike tech who appreciates practical, beautifully-engineered things. At 174cm tall and 53kg, he looks like he should be better at cycling than he actually is, and he's ok with that.
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Indeed, the rules one follows to compute basic arithmetic operations such as multiplication or division, are everyday examples of algorithms. Other well-known examples include rules to bisect an angle using compass and straightedge, or Euclid’s algorithm for calculating the greatest common divisor. Intuitively, an algorithm is a set of instructions allowing the fulfillment of a given task. Despite this ancient tradition in mathematics, only modern logical and philosophical reflection put forward the task of providing a definition of what an algorithm is, in connection with the foundational crisis of mathematics of the early twentieth century (see the entry on the philosophy of mathematics). The notion of effective calculability arose from logical research, providing some formal counterpart to the intuitive notion of algorithm and giving birth to the theory of computation. Since then, different definitions of algorithms have been proposed, ranging from formal to non-formal approaches, as sketched in the next sections.
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