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OCR: 692 SECTION CHAPTER 1.2 EXPRESSING AN ALGORITHM What's the best way express an algorithm? You can express an algorithm in several different ways, including structured English, pseudocode, and flowcharts These tools are not programming languages, and they cannot be processed by computer Their purpose to give you a way to document your ideas for program design. Structured English subset of the English language with limited selection of sentence structures that reflect processing activities Refer Figure 12-21 on the previous page to see how structured English can be used to express the algorithm for the pizza problem Another way express an algorithm is with pseudocode Pseudocode is a notational system for algorithms that has been described as mixture English and your favorite progr ramming la ...