BharatNotes Algorithm
nounUsage in a UPSC answer
As welfare delivery in India becomes increasingly digitised, the State must ensure that every algorithm used to identify beneficiaries is transparent and open to audit, lest opaque code quietly displace accountable administration.
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Word Family
algorithm (n), algorithms (n pl), algorithmic (adj), algorithmically (adv), algorithmics (n)
Root
Arabic al-Khwārizmī = name of 9th-c. mathematician; spelling influenced by Greek arithmos = number
Etymology
From Medieval Latin algorismus, from Arabic al-Khwārizmī, the name of the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi; the spelling shift from -ism to -ithm was influenced by Greek arithmos ("number").
Memory Hook
Hear "AL-GO-RHYTHM": AL (the mathematician al-Khwārizmī) tells the computer where to GO, step by step, in perfect RHYTHM — a rule-bound dance to the answer.
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