If you are someone who likes to think by making your mind by writing, drawing, or the like. This is commonly called an algorithm in the mathematical sciences in particular. You must know the interesting history of the algorithm, how the algorithm exists, who the person behind the word algorithm?
Judging from the origin of the word, the word algorithm itself has a strange history. This word does not appear in Webster until the end of 1957. People just find the word algorism which means the process of counting with Arabic numerals. And you say algorist if you are using Arabic numerals. The linguist tried to find the origin of the word algorism of this but the results are less satisfactory. Finally, historians of mathematics to find the origin of the word. The word algorism comes from the Arabic name of the author famous, namely Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al - Khuwarizmi (al - Khuwarizmi read people west into algorism). Al - Khuwarizmi wrote a book called Kitab al-Gebra wal-muqabala, which means "The book of restoration and reduction". From the book we also get the root word (algebra). The change of the word algorism is often confused with arithmetic, so it turned from –sm into a suffix-thm. Because the calculation with Arabic numerals has become familiar, then gradually fade algorithm words - gradually used as a method of calculation (computing) in general, so it loses its original meaning. In the Indonesian language, the word algorithm is absorbed into the algorithm. Of this article can be defined algorithm is a sequence of logical steps for troubleshooting
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