Friday 25 March 2011

algorithm

Wot sort of a dumb word is algorithm?

It just doesn't sort of fit into the English language. Wot other words rhythm with that?

I guess when you start to look at it's roots it begins to make more sense. The guys at mirriam peg the first use to 1926 and even oxford agrees that it comes to us from the french going back a couple of hundred years earlier. And if you squint your eyes just right, you can make the word out of the pronunciation of a pretty clever fellow writing math in arabic an eon earlier.

And the world starts to make sense yet again.

Wot's it mean? It's nerd for procedural step by step problem solving of course.

steve campisi