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Horner’s method

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association with Horner

In William George Horner
…whose name is attached to Horner’s method, a means of continuous approximation to determine the solutions of algebraic equations of any degree.
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Islamic mathematics

In mathematics: Islamic mathematics to the 15th century
…what is now known as Horner’s method to expand the binomial (a + y)ⁿ. His contemporary Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī late in the 12th century provided a method of approximating the positive roots of arbitrary equations, based on an approach virtually identical to that discovered by François Viète in 16th-century France.…
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