algorist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who uses Arabic numerals to represent numbers and to perform calculations, as opposed to one who uses Roman numerals to represent numbers and an abacus to perform calculations.
noun
One who develops algorithms.
noun
The aspect of a biological organism that follows a systematic process to interpret perceptual data.
Example Sentences
- "In the handling of numbers the dream of the algorist was to free men from a machine."
- "Navigators, astronomers, scientists, mathematicians, and others who were involved in a great deal of calculating were rather readily converted to the algorist inclination."
- "The sixteenth-century print at the left shows an abacist competing against an algorist."
- "On the other hand, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, the competition between the abacist who used an abacus for computation and the algorist who invoked Arabic numerical calculations became quite furious. Eventually, the algorist won acceptance."
- "As an algorist Ramanujan had few peers in the world of mathematics."
- "It was in Lyons where Nicholas Chuquet, a master algorist, worked and by 1484 completed a series of manuscripts referred to as the Triparty."