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Specialized vocabulary of mechanics

Algorithm:


etymology:
From French algorithms; from the Old French algorisms, a modification likely due to a mistaken connection with Ancient Greek ἀριθμός; from ml. algorism, a transliteration of Arabicized form of the name of the Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي).

pronunciation

( IPA ): /ˈælɡəɹɪðm/

noun (plural algorithms)

A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.

(archaic) Calculation with Arabic numeral s; algorism.


translations (well-defined procedure)

French: algorithme

German: Algorithmus

Italian: algoritmo

Portuguese: algoritmo

Russian: алгоритм

Spanish: algoritmo

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