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Originally Posted by Rizzy Rich View Post
My university requires me to take 3 math courses and I was terrible at math. I practiced math for 4 hours a day, every day and I finally understood how math works in the big picture. Now understanding math makes classes like chemistry really easy for me. I'd rather do math than write papers or read books any day. BTW, for those of you who didn't know, algebra is a form of short hand created by Arabic accountants as a way to remember lists. I actually learned this in biology class at the same time I was taking algebra, and it helped me actually picture what I was doing and give meaning to the numbers.
You'll find that the origins of algebra go back even further than that. The term 'algebra' IRC is Arabic in origin
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Originally Posted by George View Post
You'll find that the origins of algebra go back even further than that. The term 'algebra' IRC is Arabic in origin

Yes, Arabs were good mathematicians - algebra, trigonometry, etc. The numbers (0, 1, 2, etc.) are called Arabic numerals.
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