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

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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. Newsiline summarises this report from NPR News and links readers to the original publisher for the full story.

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