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Algorist

Algorist may refer to:

  • a person skilled in the technique of performing basic decimal arithmetic, known as algorism
  • a person skilled in the design of algorithms
  • an algorithmic artist

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In an effort to correct this oversight, we will tell you a bit about the weird history of zero, about a century-long battle between the Abacists and the Algorists, about the year zero, and about the difficulty of counting.

Abacists, who defended the use of the counting table, battled the Algorists, who preferred the new numbers.