algorithm
How did a person’s name become a method?
What do you notice?
A step-by-step method
algorithm
A scholar’s name
الخوارزمي
The method-word began as a person.
Algorithm looks like a machine word. It began as a person’s name.
Al-Khwārizmī, written Algoritmi. The method took the name.
When a site says “the algorithm,” it is using a ninth-century scholar’s name in Latin disguise. The procedure is new. The word is a traveler.
You can stop here. The word already moved.
Go find a traveling word
The screen was the door.
More ways to look outside