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algorithm
A systematic method for solving a problem. The word comes from the name of the Persian mathematician, al-Khowarizmi, and may have been first used by Gottfried Leibniz in the late 1600s. It remained little known in Western mathematics, however, until the Russian mathematician Andrei Markov (1903-1987) reintroduced it. The term became especially popular in the areas of math focused on computing and computation.
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