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Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.

Every organism you have ever seen, every ecosystem you have ever walked through, is the ongoing output of an algorithm that ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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