"When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number."
—Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jabr ca.820
TIL this is the opening sentence of the book proper (after the author's preface).
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