Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The Arabic system of numeration; the decimal system.
- n. Computation with Arabic figures.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In arithmetic, the Arabic system of notation; hence, the art of computation with the Arabic figures, now commonly called arithmetic.
- n. Any peculiar method of computing, as the rule for finding the greatest common measure.
- n. Any method of notation: as, the differential algorism.
- n. Also written algorithm.
Wiktionary
- n. Obsolete spelling of algorithm.
- n. Computing in, or using, Arabic numerals.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The art of calculating by nine figures and zero; computation with Arabic figures.
- n. the Arabic system of numeration.
- n. The art of calculating with any species of notation
WordNet 3.0
- n. the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration
- n. computation with Arabic figures
Etymologies
- Middle English algorisme, from Old French algorisme, from Medieval Latin algorismus. See algorithm. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English algorisme, from Old French, from Medieval Latin algorismus, after Muhammad ibn-Musa al-KHWARIZMI. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This is what the OED has under the etymology of "algorism" slightly modified for easier posting:”
“Actually the linked site has a very good entry on both "algorism" and "algorithm".”
“So Pipes, Michelle Malkin, Geller et al should pay attention: The words alcohol, algebra and algorism are all really Arabic.”
“Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. number.”
“Nevertheless, to understand the game aright, they feared neither the cormorant nor mallard of Savoy, which put the good people of my country in great hope that their children some time should become very skilful in algorism.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“Hec algorism {us} ars p {re} sens dicit {ur}; in qua”
“Hindu-Arabic numerals: "Over the whiche degrees ther ben noumbres of augrim, that devyden thilke same degrees fro fyve to fyve," and "... the nombres ... ben writen in augrim," meaning in the way of the algorism.”
“Gernardus, [505] the {126} author of a work on algorism.”
“In arithmetic he was influential in spreading the ideas of algorism.”
“Woepcke, _Propagation_ etc., regards this as referring to two different systems, but the expression may very well mean algorism as performed upon the Pythagorean arcs (or table).”
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