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Nov 30, 2007
This week's themeWords with built-in definite articles This week's words lagniappe alcove El Dorado azimuth algorithm This week’s comments AWADmail 283 Next week’s theme Misc. words A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargalgorithm(AL-guh-rith-uhm)noun: A finite sequence of well-defined steps for solving a problem. After al Khwarizmi (the [man] of Khwarizm), a nickname of the 9th century Persian astronomer and mathematician Abu Jafar Muhammand ibn Musa, who authored many texts on arithmetic and algebra. He worked in Baghdad and his nickname alludes to his place of origin Khwarizm (Khiva), in present-day Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
"If you teach a computer to write a piece of music by feeding it an
algorithm, have you composed the resulting piece or has the computer?" See more usage examples of algorithm in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. X-BonusA politician is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation. -James Freeman Clarke, preacher and author (1810-1888) |
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