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Why algorithms are called algorithms [video]
- observer2 7y agoFWIW, Knuth comments the source of the word somewhere in TAOCP, including showing some proper way to spell it out.
- grzm 7y agoIt's not terribly obscure: al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي), from whose name it derives, is also the source of the English word algebra, from his Al-jabr (الجبر) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compendious_Book_on_Calculation_by_Completion_and_Balancing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compendious_Book_on_Calcul...