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The term #Algorithm is Al-Khwarizmi translated into #Latin

The #scientist & #mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi lived from 780 to 850 AD in Persia & #Iraq.

Also known as the father of #algebra,
Al-Khwarizmi’s #book, “Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing” introduced systematic methods for solving linear & quadratic equations.

Using letters as symbols to represent unknown quantities, lay the foundation for symbolic algebra.

#Islam #Muslim #science #math

—@EgyptianAphorist

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#Admin #IndieWebSocial

We have 250 Patrons supporting this server – my profound thanks to you all. ✊

As we head into Meta launching an ActivityPub service & Twitter continues to spiral down, I wanted to do another drive for those of our 10,600 community who can give but have not yet.

Even at the $1 dollar a month "keep the lights on" level. 💵

We are doing fine at our current level of support & traffic, but I do want to build out what is to come.
Every bit helps!

https://www.patreon.com/indiewebsocial

—@tchambers

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Last night I got to introduce Mai to #Jamulus, one of the singers I work with for the first time. She wants to rehearse with me but lives far away, and we found that for some reason, Jamulus’s latency is lower than SonoBus so we’re going to use that for the time being. Anyway, after a test run, I said ‘come meet all the mad people I jam with on a regular basis’ and this was the last jam of the evening for her, after about an hour of hanging out. It’s ridiculous and we call it:
Good night, see you later.

—@FreakyFwoof