, or Algorithm, is similar to logistics, signifying the art of computing in any particular way, or about some particular subject; or the common rules of computing in any art. As the algorithm of numbers, of algebra, of integers, of fractions, of surds, &c; meaning the common rules for performing the operations of arithmetic, or algebra, or fractions, &c.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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