{"id":14278,"date":"2015-06-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/06\/06\/sandhi-series-everyday-equations\/"},"modified":"2015-06-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T12:00:00","slug":"sandhi-series-everyday-equations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/06\/06\/sandhi-series-everyday-equations\/","title":{"rendered":"SandHI Series&#8211;Everyday Equations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydigitalfc.com\/indian-knowledge-series\/everyday-equations-188\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, May 25, 2015 (Mydigitalfc by MD Srinivas): The word algorithm, which is commonly used for any systematic procedure of computation, has an interesting history. It derives from the medieval word &#8220;algorism&#8221;, which referred to the process of doing arithmetic by means of Indian numerals (the so called &#8220;Hindu-Arabic numerals&#8221;) following the Indian methods of calculation based on the decimal place value system. The word algorism itself is a corruption of the name of the Central Asian mathematician al Khwarizmi (c 825) whose book on the Indian method of reckoning (Hisab al Hind) was the source from which the Indian methods of calculation reached the western world. The &#8220;algorists&#8221; in medieval Europe, who computed by algorism were at a great advantage compared to those who used the abacus or any other system of numeration such as the Roman system. <\/p>\n<p>More of this SandHI&#8211;Indian Knowledge&#8211;Series article at source above. The whole series is here: http:\/\/www.mydigitalfc.com\/sandhiseries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, May 25, 2015 (Mydigitalfc by MD Srinivas): The word algorithm, which is commonly used for any systematic procedure,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}