And, going back further, the Phoenicians -- a coastal Semitic tribe -- gifted the Greeks with the alphabet %).
Jay
>The word as well as the underlying (Arabic Numerals) numeric system :-)
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>>%)
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>>What an Arabic reader would probably catch is that "algebra" is one of the few loan words that English has adopted from Arabic.
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>> Jay
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>>>WARNING ALERT
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