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6mo ago

the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth

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As a general rule any English word even vaguely related to science that starts with "al" was invented by some nerd in Bagdhad in 1084 ad
- Alcohol "is a medieval loan from Arabic al-kuḥl, a powdered ore of antimony used since antiquity as a cosmetic, and retained that meaning in Middle Latin."
  
  and then alcohol ended up getting loaned back into arabic as (al-)kuḥūl
- Algebra being another biggie
  
  alchemy, algebra, alkahest, al anon, al-aska, al-abama,

Dr. John Computers, inventor of computers

It wasn't Al Gore dancing to the rhythm!? My intro to CS class lied to me!

Meanwhile Americans decry the subversive influence of Hindu-Arabic numbers

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