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My problem is that I do not know how to disable the numbering for algorithms. I have created an algoritm and its number is "Algorithm 1", but I want to have "Algorithm".

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[noend]{algorithmic} 
% Hide endif .etc

\usepackage{algorithm}

\algsetup{indent=2em} 
% Default 1 em

\renewcommand{\algorithmiccomment}[1]{\hspace{2em}// #1} 
% Change to C-style comments, though still ugly

\begin{document}
\begin{algorithm}
    \caption{MyAlgorithm} \label{alg:MyAlgorithm}
    \begin{algorithmic}[1]
    % Default no line numbering



    \end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}

\end{document}
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    how do you create the caption? Give a complete example Commented May 16, 2011 at 7:28
  • @Herbert - added Commented May 16, 2011 at 7:57

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posting working examples would be a nice idea ... ;-) Now only page references make sense:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[noend]{algorithmic} 
\usepackage{algorithm,caption}
\algsetup{indent=2em} 
\renewcommand{\algorithmiccomment}[1]{\hspace{2em}// #1} 

\begin{document}
\begin{algorithm}
\caption*{MyAlgorithm} \label{alg:MyAlgorithm}
\begin{algorithmic}[1]
\item foo
\end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}

see algorithm on Page~\pageref{alg:MyAlgorithm}
\end{document}
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  • A-HA, it works. thx Commented May 16, 2011 at 9:31
  • Actually I didn't know we have to add caption package before using * Commented May 16, 2011 at 9:32
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    What is your code doing? what is the part that disables numbering?? Commented Apr 18, 2020 at 23:23
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    @colinfang how does this disable numbering? Commented Apr 21, 2020 at 2:04
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Setting the counter to nothing also works fine

\renewcommand{\thealgorithm}{}
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    Werner's answer gives some context about \thealgorithm macro in case anyone is looking for why this works Commented May 31, 2018 at 17:48
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The algorithm name and number are set as a combination. In general this is inside the "float macro" called \fnum@<float>. In the case of algorithm we see this definition for \fnum@algorithm:

> \fnum@algorithm=macro:
->\fname@algorithm {} \thealgorithm .

We can redefine this to only use \fname@algorithm (and therefore drop \thealgorithm - the algorithm numbering):

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{algorithm,algpseudocode}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\fnum@algorithm}{\fname@algorithm}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{algorithm}
  \caption{MyAlgorithm}
  \begin{algorithmic}[1]
    \State An item
  \end{algorithmic}
\end{algorithm}

\end{document}

A similar interface/option is provided using the caption package:

\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{algnonumber}{Algorithm}
\captionsetup[algorithm]{labelformat=algnonumber}
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