algorism -- Vice presid..... naaa, too easy. Even the folks at word of the day got this one.
algorism (AL-guh-riz-uhm) noun
1. The Arabic system of numeration; the decimal system.
2. Computation with Arabic figures.
[Middle English algorisme, from Old French, from Medieval Latin algorismus
after Muhammad ibn Khwarizmi-Musa Al-.]
"And other mathematical phenomena need to be explored for their role in
determining how mensural systems were designed, particularly the schemes
of 'harmonic numbers' which crop up in Vitry's correspondence with Gerson.
Christopher Page has also recently drawn our attention to the stimulus of
developments in algorism and computus ...."
Lefferts, Peter M., Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and
Evolution (book reviews), Music & Letters, Feb 1995.
Here is another example of algorism. -Anu (-:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative
in creating the Internet." -Al Gore, US Vice President (in a CNN interview
March 9, 1999).
This week's theme: eponyms.
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