Algorist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Algorist is a noun meaning One who develops algorithms.
Meaning
One who develops algorithms.
More Meanings
- The aspect of a biological organism that follows a systematic process to interpret perceptual data.
- 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.
Example Sentences
As an algorist Ramanujan had few peers in the world of mathematics.
In the handling of numbers the dream of the algorist was to free men from a machine.
The sixteenth-century print at the left shows an abacist competing against an algorist.
As an algorist Euler has never been surpassed, and probably never even closely approached, unless perhaps by Jacobi.
Word Forms
- algorists
Antonyms for algorist
Common opposites include abacist.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abacist, numerist, almanographer, algorithmist, calculator, adder.
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