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al-Khwarizmi
Persian/Arabic · medieval
"a mathematician's name"
a Persian mathematician whose name, via Latin, came to mean a step-by-step calculation method
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algorismus
Medieval Latin · medieval
"a system of calculation"
carried into Latin for the Arabic system of calculation
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algorithm
English · 1600s
"a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem"
settled as the English word for a step-by-step procedure for calculations
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