Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe @ N41:48:31, W88:07:13) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: "Algorithym" ? Message-ID: <339@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 14:54:37 EST Article-I.D.: ihlts.339 Posted: Wed Feb 1 14:54:37 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 09:38:51 EST References: <912@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 10 Perhaps it should be said that computer scientists practice the "algorithym method" :-) Which was, no doubt, detailed in the Data Sutra? TRIVIA: The word "algorithm" is from the name of an Arabic mathematician, Al Khowarizmi, or something like that. While I'm at it, "algebra" is from the author of a very old algebra text, Al Jabr, or something like that (no, not Kareem). Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe