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 (n): a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
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8 months ago rolig said:

Eponymous and toponymous!
< MedL. algorismus < Arabic al-Kwarizmi, "the Khwarezmian", a cognomen for the 9th-c. mathematician Abu Jafar Mohammed ibn Musa.

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