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Algebra.Com's Answer #9599 by christinaaa192(28) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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that's a good question. I'm not really sure why either, but my guess is a greek or latin (or some other kind of language) long time ago. but you might want to research that. \n" ); document.write( "

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