Buffett Donates $2.8 Billion, Breaks Personal Giving Record. Warren Buffett has bested his own personal philanthropy record once again, donating $2.8 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and several other charities as part of his annual giving pledge. The gifts given Monday top last yearâs $2.6 billion donation.
Pseudocode is a description of a computer programming algorithm that uses the structural conventions of programming languages, but omits detailed subroutines or language-specific syntax. An example of how pseudocode differs from regular code is below. Regular code (written in PHP): <?php. if (is_valid($cc_number)) {. execute_transaction($cc_number, $order); } else {.
Also includes runically unrelated blackletter writing style and pigpen cipher. In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryptionâa series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is encipherment. To encipher or encode is to convert information into cipher or code. In common parlance, 'cipher' is synonymous with 'code', as they are both a set of steps that encrypt a message; however, the concepts are distinct in cryptography, especially classical cryptography.