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Toon High School Science Fear (Original Post) n2doc Sep 2015 OP
Thanks, I've added it to the collection. K&R Electric Monk Sep 2015 #1
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k & r. Thanks for posting. nm rhett o rick Sep 2015 #3
Pure Bullshit!!! SCVDem Sep 2015 #4
K&R... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #5
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Wait...I think I remember that guy! Rex Sep 2015 #7
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awoke_in_2003

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5. K&R...
Sat Sep 19, 2015, 05:40 PM
Sep 2015

The word Algebra does come from Arabic roots.

"The word "algebra" is derived from the Arabic word Al-Jabr, and this comes from the treatise written in 820 by the medieval Persian mathematician, Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, entitled, in Arabic Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala, which can be translated as The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_algebra

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