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Al-Khwārizmī on the Indian Numbers (Latin) (Dixit Algorizmi (Algoritmi de numero Indorum))

Latin translation of al-Khwārizmī's lost arithmetic on reckoning with the nine Indian figures and zero, beginning 'Dixit Algorizmi'; the word 'algorithm' comes from this incipit.

Language
Latin
Date
1120–1150 CE
Author
Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Text
not yet digitised (catalogue entry)

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