How many proof-of-work algorithm exists for crypto currencies?

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How many proof-of-work algorithm exists for crypto currencies ? We know PoW in Bitcoin and Etherium are different. Is there any other algorithm used for crypto currencies ?

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Any Strong Сryptography Hash Function can be used as PoW

So, the number of algorithms can be infinite. Counting the number of currently used hash-functions has no sense.

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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work#List_of_algorithms – Questioner – 2017-09-26T16:17:25.330

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