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the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth (hexbear.net)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't algebra just an Englishized Arabic for "the math?"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From this dude's wiki page:

His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing), [...] The English term algebra comes from the short-hand title of his aforementioned treatise (الجبر Al-Jabr, transl. "completion" or "rejoining").

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh okay, there we go. Thanks.