by informationally on 12/20/21, 10:14 PM with 2 comments
by 1cvmask on 12/20/21, 10:36 PM
While correctly pointing out that it is algorithms at play I can't be amused at the history of the word algorithm itself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm#History
The word algorithm is derived from the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, whose nisba (identifying him as from Khwarazm) was Latinized as Algoritmi (Arabized Persian الخوارزمی c. 780–850).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi
The term algebra itself comes from the title of his book (the word al-jabr meaning "completion" or "rejoining"). His name gave rise to the terms algorism and algorithm, as well as Spanish and Portuguese terms algoritmo, and Spanish guarismo[18] and Portuguese algarismo meaning "digit".