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Thought you might be the one to ask. Do you know of any connection between Arab algebra and zairjas mentioned here?

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Dec 21, 2019

On the calculating devices of Llull and Leibniz: publicdomainreview.org/essay/let-us-c Traces the origin of this method to medieval Arabic divination boards called “Zairjas” (زايرجة) likely a Persian portmanteau of zaicha (horoscope) + daira (circle).

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hmm not in arab algebra but that'd take more of a historian than me, I've used techniques similar to that though you could draw parallels between ideaspace and linear algebra, but ideaspace doesn't afford quite the same things as vector spaces

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while you can (very fruitfully) draw parallels in both, ideas are for example not commutative (twitter.com/allgebrah/stat + what remains of that thread)

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Jun 9, 2018

intuitively I'd go for trope=vector but tropes are only very roughly commutative, their ordering still matters ideaspace is more vector-spacey personally I conceptualize narratives as paths (synkretie.net/writings/wildp) but through something other than ideaspace

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super cool rabbithole actually, though you've probably already seen alpha60.de/research/scram since it's linked from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zairja?

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