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<DIV>In a message dated 1/8/2004 12:18:59 PM Central Standard Time, ravenrux@cox.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Al-gebra does derive from an Arabic word. I find it ironic that a goodly amount of mathematics was lost to the West when the Library at Alexandria was burned and later reintroduced by Islamics--since it was the Islamics that burned it in the first place.<BR><BR>Masamune no Yahaki</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000a0>I was under the impression that the Library at Alexandria burned down after Caesar had set fire to all of Ptolemy's fleet in the Alexandrian harbor and it spread to the city. Perhaps I heard it wrong.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000a0>-Kasha</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>