I'm still thinking about how this guy is the kind of Christian conservative who thinks it's even POSSIBLE to know more mathematics in AD 800 than now Like the actual massive, gigantic advances in math since then are all just passing fashionshttps://twitter.com/johnpauldickson/status/1278997229068406789 …
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The mathematician who wrote down the "art of the ten numerals" was named Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, and his last name became the English word "algorism", which later became "algorithm"
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"Algorithm" eventually just came to mean a systematic method for doing things but the original "algorism" was specifically doing arithmetic on paper, the magic of positional notation
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