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2005-06-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by mhw 2005-06-28 10:08|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And people are surprised by this? Now if only Mr. Penn will report this.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-06-28 10:18|| 2005-06-28 10:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like the Shemiranat district was a bit overzealous. I guess all that Koran studying takes its toll on learning basic arithmetic. [Remember Saddam's last election? No extra voters, and all the voters were in complete agreement. A model of unity.]

Posted by Tom 2005-06-28 10:27|| 2005-06-28 10:27|| Front Page Top

#3 wasnt modern arithmetic originally concieved of by muslim scholars

Posted by bk 2005-06-28 12:08|| 2005-06-28 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 sounds like Washington state's governer's election

Posted by bk 2005-06-28 12:10|| 2005-06-28 12:10|| Front Page Top

#5 bk

IMO, Islam's most important achievement in math is transmitting hindu numerals to the west, especially the zero

there were some talented mathematicians (I think the word 'algebra' is arabic in origin) and, in fact, some interesting algebaic arguments have been advanced to resolve the anomalies in the Quran with respect to inheritance (a straight forward reading of a number of inheritance cases results in the estate being divided up into more than 100%).

Posted by mhw 2005-06-28 12:20|| 2005-06-28 12:20|| Front Page Top

#6 "the estate being divided up into more than 100%"
ROTFL
mhw, are you serious? Sounds like the Shemiranat district is just using the same 6th century algebra!

Posted by Tom 2005-06-28 13:14|| 2005-06-28 13:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Tom

Sura 4:11-12 and 4:176 state [some of the] the Qur'anic inheritance law. When a man dies, and is leaving behind three daughters, his two parents and his wife, they will receive the respective shares of 2/3 for the 3 daughters together, 1/3 for the parents together [both according to verse 4:11] and 1/8 for the wife [4:12] which adds up to more than the available estate. A second example: A man leaves only his mother, his wife and two sisters, then they receive 1/3 [mother, 4:11], 1/4 [wife, 4:12] and 2/3 [the two sisters, 4:176], which again adds up to 15/12 of the available property.

- from a part of http://www.geocities.com/freethoughtmecca/quranlogic.html

Posted by mhw 2005-06-28 14:08|| 2005-06-28 14:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Bk

Nope. You can say Algebra was invented in Babylon (where there was found a method for solving the second degree equation and there is also a very fast algoritrhm for extracting squatre roots called the Babylonian method of square root extraction) but Babylon was waaaaaaay before Islam.

And according to Ibn Warrak all scientific "islamic" progress was made either by dhimmis or by people who were only nominally muslims (and often openly hostile to Muhammad's teachings). There was never a Muslim Cauchy (Cauchy was one of the greatest mathematicians in all time and an ardent Catholic. Ardent as in hearing mass several times a week)

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-06-28 16:27|| 2005-06-28 16:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm no Catholic but several years of Anglican/Episocopalian services have given me an excellent sense of time, how it can stand still, reverse, etc.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-28 17:45|| 2005-06-28 17:45|| Front Page Top

#10 It was worse in me Baptist upbringing, the powers of the Frist Baptist Church would subtlely change the timing of the service to foil my inner church watch.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-28 17:48|| 2005-06-28 17:48|| Front Page Top

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