algorism (algorizm)

[ If ever they came to the connected mention of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, it ought to have been a sign that they were reading on algorism as dist in guished from arithmetic. De Morgan, Arith. Books, xix. 2. Any peculiar method of computing, as the rule for finding the greatest common measure. -3. Any method of notation: as, the differential algorism. Also written algorithm. algorismic (al-gō-riz'mik), a . [ algorism + as, algorithmic logic. Symbolic, as I understand it, being almost exactly the equivalent of algorithmic. J. Venn, Symbolic Logic, p. 98. Algorithmic geometry, Wronski's name for analytical geometry. Seldom used by writers of authority. algous (al'gus), a. [L. algosus, abounding in seaweed, alga, a seaweed: see alga.] Pertaining to or resembling algæ or seaweeds; abounding with seaweed.