The origin of algorithm
Posted: July 28, 2018 Filed under: business, Islam Leave a comment
The word “algorithm” comes up a lot these days. We’ve spoken before about the origin of this word, in the name of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, author of The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.
written around 820 CE in the city of Baghdad.
The man from Khwarizm.
source: Wiki user Fulvio Spada
The Khwarazam region today doesn’t look too great.
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