How To Use Algorism In A Sentence

  • Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. ‘number.' Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
  • Hec algorism {us} ars p {re} sens dicit {ur}; in qua The Earliest Arithmetics in English
  • Actually the linked site has a very good entry on both "algorism" and "algorithm". Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
  • Hindu-Arabic numerals: "Over the whiche degrees ther ben noumbres of augrim, that devyden thilke same degrees fro fyve to fyve," and "... the nombres ... ben writen in augrim," meaning in the way of the algorism. The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
  • Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. ‘number.' Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
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  • So Pipes, Michelle Malkin, Geller et al should pay attention: The words alcohol, algebra and algorism are all really Arabic. Gershom Gorenberg: Onion Buys ABC News
  • In arithmetic he was influential in spreading the ideas of algorism. The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
  • n. - art of calculating, especially in Arabic numeration; arithmetic. algorismic, alias adj. - otherwise called; n. assumed name. alicyclic adj. - denoting organic compounds that are both aliphatic and cyclic, i.e. aliphatic in chemical behaviour but having their carbon atoms in a ring. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • For the algorism of temperature and moisture control, it makes profound analysis, puts forward a new algorism, and prominently improves the controlling quality.
  • This is what the OED has under the etymology of "algorism" slightly modified for easier posting: Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.
  • Gernardus, [505] the {126} author of a work on algorism. The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
  • Nevertheless, to understand the game aright, they feared neither the cormorant nor mallard of Savoy, which put the good people of my country in great hope that their children some time should become very skilful in algorism. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. ‘number.' Languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS.

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