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The word algorism comes from the Arabic al-Kowarizmi(the one from Kowarizm) the cognomen(nickname) of an early-9th- century mathematician possibly from what is now Khiva in western Uzbekistan .(From whose name also comes the word algorithm)
The word algorithm derives from algorism,a generalization of the meaning to any set of rules specifying a computational procedure occasionally algorism is also used in this generalized meaning .especially in older texts.