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VMA131Marine

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3. Someone should ask him why we call our numbers...
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 08:14 PM
Jul 2016

Last edited Mon Jul 18, 2016, 09:23 PM - Edit history (2)

Arabic numerals.

Also, the root of the word algebra is al-jabr: invented by Persian mathematicians. Gunpowder and rocketry: invented in China. What a moron!

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