On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:57:28 -0700, Mr Wizzard wrote:


No, since algebra was around before the word "computer" ever hit the
airwaves. Abacus, yes, that was good. Look, I admidt, I should have
"qualified" my comments/questions to an actual "time frame" - as in THIS
centry. You know, in the era that most know as "industrialization", ergo,
AFTER the discovery of middle Eastern oil. ...Seems that once oil was
discovered, the Arabs shut down all of their human development, and shut
out the rest of the world.

Not really a fair comparison, is it? For most of this century, the Arab
world was being pillaged by those industrialized countries. For most of
this century, the Arab world were colonies of England and France or
part of the Ottoman Empire. Perhaps, a fairer question would be, what did
those industrial powers bring to the Arab world? I mean, besides death,
destruction, and absurd lines on a map.