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- Fleeting Footsteps: Tracing the Conception of Arithmetic and Algebra in Ancient China
Fleeting Footsteps: Tracing the Conception of Arithmetic and Algebra in Ancient China
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This book provides considerable evidence to show that the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, in spite of its commonly accepted name, has its origins in the Chinese rod numeral system. This system was in use in China from antiquity till the 16th and 17th century. It was used by officials, astronomers, traders and others to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and other arithmetric operations, and also used by mathematicians to develop arithmetic and algebra.
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