using a binary tree container

Mafi mafi at example.org
Sun Feb 13 08:39:12 PST 2011


Am 12.02.2011 00:02, schrieb spir:
> On 02/11/2011 10:33 PM, Mafi wrote:
>>
>> I allways try to import 'algorythm' because of the german word
>> 'Algorythmus'.
>> When this happend for the first time, I spent about five minutes to
>> find out
>> what's wrong.
>
> It is spelled Algorithmus in German, no ypsilon ;-)
> http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Algorithmus
> The word is not from greek, but from arabic/persian etymology (like many
> words starting in al-). From wiktionary:
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/algorithm:
>
>  From French algorithme; from the Old French algorisme ("the Arabic
> numeral system"), a modification likely due to a mistaken connection
> with Greek ἀριθμός (number); from Medieval Latin algorismus, a
> transliteration of the name of the Persian mathematician al-Khwārizmī
> (Arabic: الخوارزمي, "native of Khwarezm.")
>
> denis
Holly shit! I feel ashamed now. :(
I'm going to correct all my personal notes about algorithms.

Mafi


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