Crossword-Solution: ALGORISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Algorism | n. | Alt. of Algorithm |
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| digit | 19 answers |
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| Number | 118 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ALGORISM (5)
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.
The text of the first few lines is as follows: "Hec algorism' ars p'sens dicit' in qua Talib; indor[um] fruim bis quinq; figuris.[41] "This boke is called the boke of algorim or augrym after lewder use.
Algorism (augrim, augrym, algram, agram, algorithm), owes its name to the accident that the first arithmetical treatise translated from the Arabic happened to be one written by Al-Khowarazmi in the early ninth century, “de numeris Indorum,” beginning in its Latin form “Dixit Algorismi.
Algorism is distinguished from Abacist computation by recognising seven rules, Addition, Subtraction, Duplation, Mediation, Multiplication, Division, and Extraction of Roots, to which were afterwards added Numeration and Progression.
His verse treatise on the Calendar is dated 1200, and it is to that period that his Algorism may be attributed; Sacrobosco died in 1256 and quotes the verse Algorism.