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Stinky The Clown

(67,799 posts)
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 08:31 PM Jul 2019

Apropos of nothing and everything, is this widely known little thought of fact.

The numbers that sent us to the moon, that adorn our currency, that tally our votes, that contribute to the cure for cancer, that for them third leg of the three legged stool of reading', writing' an' 'rithmetic, that measure our speed and the fines that speed begets, that counts the days of year, that denotes to Donald the size of his imagined fortune, that does so very much, that impacts the whole of civilization today are

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Apropos of nothing and everything, is this widely known little thought of fact. (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Jul 2019 OP
Even the word algebra CloudWatcher Jul 2019 #1
I had this discussion Turbineguy Jul 2019 #2

CloudWatcher

(1,848 posts)
1. Even the word algebra
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 08:36 PM
Jul 2019

Is from the Arabic al-jabr. Perhaps this helps explain their anti-science, anti-knowledge, anti-reality posturing.

Turbineguy

(37,331 posts)
2. I had this discussion
Mon Jul 15, 2019, 09:43 PM
Jul 2019

with a RWNJ Engineer colleague.

"To you, the Enlightenment was something that happened to other people isn't it?"

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