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Where does the term Algorithm from?

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The term algorithm derives from the title of the Persian and Muslim mathematician of the 9th century Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi.

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The term algorithm derives from the title of the Persian and Muslim mathematician of the 9th century Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi. He was a mathematician, astronomer, and geographer during Abbasid Caliphate and he was a researcher at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

His systematic method of analyzing linear and quadratic problems resulted in algebra. It is a title derived from all his collection of 830 book title on the topic, "The Compendious Book on Completion and Balancing Calculation."

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