The "wa" is an "and".  Therefore if I presume the word-order is the
same, then Al-Muqabilah should be "the balancing," not Jabr.

The tri-consonant root should be QLB (qaliba.)

But I'll have to wait until I get home to pull out my Hans-Weir again.

Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc. 

BT







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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adam Dorritie
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:56 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Iraqi elections (ALGEBRA)
> 
> 
> I knew that the History of the Islamic Middle East class that
> I recently took would be of use somewhere.  Now I've found it!
> 
> The term Algebra comes from the title of a work by the noted
> Khurasanian (Persian) mathemetician and scientist 
> al-Khwarezmi (transliteration varies, I've seen 
> "al-Khwarizimi").  It was called Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah or 
> roughly "Calculation by completion and balancing."  Wow 
> school really is useful! I'm glad I went back:)
> 
> Adam
> 
> Paul writes:
> > When I was in the United Arab Emirates, back in 1990, I was
> told by an
> > Egyptian officer that we were dealing with, that 'Algebra' means
> > 'balance'.
> > -------------------
> 
> and Brice writes:
> > I would not be surprised to fing out this was because what
> is on both
> > the right and left sides of the equals sign is the same, or
> > 'balanced'.

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