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  • Algebra, computer languages and “shared truth”

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    The word algebra comes from the Arabic word al-jbr meaning “completion”, “restoration” and “reunion of broken pieces”. Al-Kitab al-Mukhtasar fi Hisab al-jbr Wal-Mugabalah (The Compendious book on calculation by completion and balancing) was written in 820 in Baghdad by Persian polymath Al-Khwarizmi. The title of this book is the ultimate etymology of the word algebra.…