Author Topic: Breaking News: Possible Hijacking Stopped (Read 115 times)

JTSimon · « **on:** March 31, 2004, 09:59:24 AM »

Today, an individual, later discovered to be a public school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, setsquare, slide rule, and a calculator.

Attorney General John Ashcroft believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction. Al-gebra is a fearsome cult, indeed," Ashcroft said.
"They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometime go off on a tangent in a search of absolute value. They consist of quite shadowy figures, with names like "X" and "Y", and, although they are frequently referred to as unknowns", we know they really belong to a common denominator and are
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The history of algebra began in ancient Egypt and Babylon, where people learned to solve linear (ax = b) and quadratic (ax2 + bx = c) equations, as well as indeterminate equations such as x2 + y2 = z2, whereby several unknowns are involved. The ancient Babylonians solved arbitrary quadratic equations by essentially the same procedures taught today. They also could solve some indeterminate equations. The term derives from the Arabic al-jabr or literally ``the reunion of broken parts.'' As well as its mathematical meaning, the word also means the surgical treatment of fractures.

Algebra was brought from ancient Babylon, Egypt and India to Europe via Italy by the Arabs.