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At sunrise in Baghdad, Al-Khwarizmi carried a blank scroll to the House of Wisdom. He had a puzzle to solve.
Al-Khwarizmi Gave Numbers a New Way to TravelAl-Khwarizmi wrote about methods for solving problems with numbers, helping ideas in mathematics spread across the world.
1. At sunrise in Baghdad, Al-Khwarizmi carried a blank scroll to the House of Wisdom. He had a puzzle to solve.
2. A merchant needed to share 24 dates equally among 6 baskets. Al-Khwarizmi placed six little piles on his desk.
3. He shared the dates one at a time. Six baskets received four dates each.
4. Then he tried another puzzle. A scale needed to balance, but one side was heavier.
5. Al-Khwarizmi did not guess. He changed one part, then checked the whole problem again.
6. Soon, he had a method: arrange the problem, take careful steps, and check the answer.
7. He wrote the steps clearly on scrolls. A student copied them, line by line.
8. The scrolls left Baghdad with travelers. Their ideas rode beside spices, cloth, and stories.
9. In other places, people read and copied the methods. Step by step, the ideas traveled farther.
10. Al-Khwarizmi had not made numbers move by magic. He had made their steps easy to follow. He wrote about methods for solving problems with numbers, helping ideas in mathematics spread across the world.
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