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That's bullshit (sorry), Al Khwarizmi wrote a book with the words Al-Jabr in its title and we translate those words to mean calculation. > The Compendious Book
by posterboy 8y ago
That's bullshit (sorry), Al Khwarizmi wrote a book with the words Al-Jabr in its title and we translate those words to mean calculation.
> The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (Arabic: الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wal-muqābala)
What the words meant originally is not entirely clear. Something like to set, adjust, reckon, I reckon.
PS: And as was pointed out, the Author is said to be from Persia
- dang 8y ago> That's bullshit (sorry), Please don't break the site guidelines like that, when they ask you quite explicitly not to: When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In this case, your comment would be excellent if you'd simply delete that bit. Saying sorry doesn't make it better, because the other person typically doesn't hear that part.
- posterboy 8y agoYes , you are right. The interjection wasn't exactly aimed at the minor mix-up, but the whole comment. The mix-up just made me enthusiastic enough to display my overbearing sense of superior knowledge with glee. That's the same problem the GP had, so it evens out?!