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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: "Algebra"
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 11:00:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  2 11:00:59 1984
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>>> While I'm at it, "algebra"
>>> is from the author of a very old algebra text, Al Jabr, or something
>>> like that (no, not Kareem).
>>> 		Roger Noe		ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe

Not quite.  "Al-jabr" (which is Arabic) means "the reduction."
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