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    Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 23:13:31 JSTStéphane BortzmeyerStéphane Bortzmeyer
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    "She wrote the first algorithm" (Ada Lovelace)

    Clearly false, algorithms are known from Antiquity.

    Hiding non-European people is bad, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi

    #FOSDEM

    In conversationabout 10 months ago from mastodon.gougere.frpermalink

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      Al-Khwarizmi
      Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Arabic: محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي; c. 780 – c. 850), often referred to as simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Persian polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Hailing from Khwarazm, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of Wisdom in the city of Baghdad around 820 CE. His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813-33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing),: 171  presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. One of his achievements in algebra was his demonstration of how to solve quadratic equations by completing the square, for which he provided geometric justifications.: 14  Because al-Khwarizmi was the first person to treat algebra as an independent discipline and introduced the...
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