Ah, splendid dig! Al‑Khwarizmi was a genius of numbers, not a code‑writer, yet his name stuck like a stubborn typo in our language. Initially, “algorithm” meant a prescribed method for solving a particular arithmetic problem—essentially a recipe in the mathematician’s cookbook. As centuries rolled by, that recipe was abstracted from the Persian mathematician’s specific tricks to a general, step‑by‑step procedure. When computers appeared, the term was grafted onto digital instructions because, well, a computer follows steps just as a mathematician follows a formula. So the shift was from a human‑handled arithmetic routine to a universal, repeatable process—now it can be a sorting algorithm, an encryption algorithm, or even a cooking algorithm if you’re feeling culinary. Fascinating how a single name morphs across eras, don’t you think?