Green Farms
banner
greenfarms.bsky.social
Green Farms
@greenfarms.bsky.social
An Unremarkable farm specializing in heirloom potatoes and artisanal ice cream. Strange attractor and Irish heritage site since of 2015. Owned and operated by @Xencraft.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy and @athenaintheeast.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy
Reposted by Green Farms
At the end of the Renaissance, possibly unaware Algoritmi was a name, or that it was Latinized, someone who liked to go "thhh" a lot** regularized it with Greek to "algorithm."

Algebra: Arabic
Arithmetic: Greek
Algorithm: Gibberish in Persian and Latin and Greek

---

Key:

* reductive
** joke
February 6, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Reposted by Green Farms
300 years later, a hermit in Spain** who lacked letters for those sounds* Latinized it all, and "al-Jabr by al-Khwarizmi" became Algebra by Algoritmi.

Meanwhile! In Greek:

arithmetic:
arithm- (number)
-ētik- (of or for)
-ē (feminine*)

What it says on the tin, which leads to the good part:
February 6, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Reposted by Green Farms
yeah that ain't happenin'
February 5, 2026 at 1:53 AM