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Duncan Broadfoot <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 16 May 1996 18:11:13 EDT
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Not middle english - arabic!  From the title of the book 'Al-jabr wa'lmuqabalh'
by the mathematician al-Khowarizmi, who died before 850 ad, and also gave us the
word algorithm (from his name).

Mary Broadfoot BSc (Hons) Mathematics

Scotland
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