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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yes, I know Arabic and Islamic are not synonymous. I was stretching for a silly title.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Similar etymology for algorithm too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, that one comes from the name of a Persian mathematician named al-Khwarismi (sp?), from whose writings medieval mathematicians got the idea

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Al-khwarismi is the same guy who wrote al-jabr.

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