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The 1200-Year Journey of the Word "Algorithm"

Al-Khwarizmi’s name became the Latin *Algoritmi*, while a procedure followed by a person moved into gears, punched cards, logic circuits, and stored programs. The journey then continues through the FFT, PageRank, and Transformers—not as one straight lineage, but through translation, independent discovery, unbuilt machines, and team labour.

3 min825–2017

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Baghdad

Al-Khwarizmi — Writing Calculation as a Procedure

Al-Khwarizmi organized arithmetic with Indian numerals so an Arabic reader could follow the operations in order. The original is lost and its exact date unknown, but his name survived in Latin as *Algoritmi* and became the source of “algorithm.”

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Al-Khwarizmi — Writing Calculation as a Procedure

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