algorists

Noun

algorist (plural algorists)

1. 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.
   • In the handling of numbers the dream of the algorist was to free men from a machine.1953, Burdette Ross Buckingham, Elementary Arithmetic: Its Meaning and Practice, page 344

   Antonyms:

   abacist

2. One who develops algorithms.
   • As an algorist Ramanujan had few peers in the world of mathematics.1987, Mathematical Education - Volume 4, page 64
3. The aspect of a biological organism that follows a systematic process to interpret perceptual data.
   • What we witness in Trevarthan's and Halliday's behavioral and protolinguistic analyses of infant line, is the infant as algorist possessing and deploying a stock of fundamental strategies or modes for selectively operating upon the world.1976, Haskins Laboratories, Status Report on Speech Research