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FWIW, Knuth comments the source of the word somewhere in TAOCP, including showing some proper way to spell it out.
by observer2 7y ago
FWIW, 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...