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How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician
news NPR Top News June 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM

How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician

In the 9th century, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.

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