Which consequence results from Al-Khwarizmi's 'al-jabr' lacking modern notation?

💡 Explanation

Verbal description was required because symbolic manipulation was unavailable which limits *abstraction*. Therefore, complex operations weren't scalable to advanced techniques rather than leveraging visual simplification with modern notation or accelerating analytic geometry's adoption.

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