willbeurdaddy
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ORIGINAL: Nineveh Algebra was invented by Arabs, during the middle ages. This diabolical thought process has now spread across the world and is being used to inculcate our children with Islamic thought processes. We must cease the teaching and practice of this particularly diabolical form of mathematics before we fall any further into the clutches of our Islamic masters to be. This would be sort of funny if it wasnt for the first treatise considered to be Algebra being written by Diophantus, a Greek living in Egypt nearly 500 years before al-Khwarizmi's writings. The correct answer is the Babylonians, you can thank me later. the Babylonians and Egyptians, roughly contemporaneously, informally solved what could be considered algebraic equations, but without the use of symbols and without the ability to handle fractions (in the Egyptians case) and negative numbers (in both cases), all of which are considered essential to algebra. Youre welcome.
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