-C14 from Medieval Latin, from Arabic aljabr - the bone-setting, reunification, mathematical reduction
I personally find connections to other languages fascinating including the Arabic here.
Remember all those rationals and irrationals,
the ones we got confused?
I still get them wrong and I am not very amused.
Digits and decimals, too many D's
But wait until we start on those x,y, and z's....~'Algebra One,' Daphne Needham
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