Horner

/ˈhɔrnər/ noun

A person who works with horn materials, or reference to Horner's method in mathematics for evaluating polynomials.

From Old English 'horn' plus occupational suffix '-er'. The mathematical sense refers to William George Horner (1786-1837), British mathematician who developed an efficient polynomial evaluation algorithm.

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