different between algorithm vs maths

English

Alternative forms

• algorism (obsolete)
• augrim (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English algorisme, augrym, from Anglo-Norman algorisme, augrim, from Medieval Latin algorismus, from Arabic ???????????????? (al-?uw?rizmiyy), the nisba of Persian mathematician Mu?ammad ibn M?s? al-Khw?rizm?. The spelling change (-s- > -th-) was influenced by unrelated Ancient Greek ??????? (arithmós) (whence English arithmo-) .

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?l?g?-r?-th?m, ?l?g?-r?th-m, IPA^(key): /?æl????ð?m/, /?æl????ðm?/
• (General American) enPR: ?l?g?-r?'th?m, ?l?g?-r?th'm, IPA^(key): /?æl?????ð?m/, /?æl?????ðm?/
• Hyphenation UK: al?gorithm, US: al?go?rithm

Noun

algorithm (countable and uncountable, plural algorithms)

1. (countable) A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps.
   • 1990, Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms: page 1. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1999 (23rd printing)

     Informally, an algorithm is any well-defined computational procedure that takes some value, or set of values, as input and produces some value, or set of values, as output. An algorithm is thus a sequence of computational steps that transform the input into the output.
2. (uncountable, obsolete) Calculation with Arabic numerals; algorism.

Hyponyms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????
• ? Korean: ???? (algorijeum)

Translations

See also

• data structure
• function
• program

References

Anagrams

• logarithm, mithralog

English

Alternative forms

• math (North America)
• mathematics

Etymology

Contraction of mathematics.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?ths IPA^(key): /mæ?s/
• Rhymes: -æ?s

Noun

maths (uncountable)

1. (informal, Commonwealth of Nations, rarely Canada) Clipping of mathematics.
   • 1980 August 21, Girls can do maths as well as boys, New Scientist, page 586,

     The conventional “commonsense” view now is that girls are conditioned both by family and teachers to believe that maths is a subject at which males excel, and that they believe they cannot be expected to comprehend its subtleties — so they don?t.

   • 2004, Miraca U.M. Gross, Exceptionally Gifted Children, page 229,

     At age 10, Ian was based with the Grade 6 students but was allowed to take maths with Grade 10 – a four-year grade advancement.

   • 2011, Clifford Matthews, IMechE Engineers? Databook, Fourth edition, John Wiley & Sons, page 40,

     Most people who are forced to use maths have little idea what it is really about.

Translations

Anagrams

• Thams

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/
• (Paris)

Noun

maths f (always plural)

1. Clipping of mathématiques; math or maths (study of numbers, etc.; a course involving the study of numbers)