by Kevin Burton Fear not, dear reader. Easy does it. This won’t hurt a bit. For your attention today we bring terms and definitions from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for elements of mathematics. But there will be no test. Or, if you consider it a test, you are auditing this one. Take from …
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Common Words Borrowed From Arabic
by Kevin Burton Have there been more impassioned articles written about the evil of alcohol or the evil of algebra? Who can tell really? But these twin menaces are linked in today’s word list from Merriam-Webster, words borrowed by English from Arabic: Algebra Anyone who has unpleasant memories of slogging through this …
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