The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer, Volume 1The book explores the science of numeration as it has developed all over the world, from Europe to China, via the Classical World, Mesopotamia, South America and, above all, India and the Arab lands. |
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... system could not be used to record very high numbers . This comment is significant because it constitutes a numerical " palin- drome " : the number reads the same from left to right or from right to left , which is ... PLACE - VALUE SYSTEM.
... system could not be used to record very high numbers . This comment is significant because it constitutes a numerical " palin- drome " : the number reads the same from left to right or from right to left , which is ... PLACE - VALUE SYSTEM.
Page 419
... place - value system with the word - symbols , often also expressing the number using the nine numerals and zero [ K. S. Shukla and K. V. Sarma ( 1976 ) ] . 628 CE . Indian astronomer and mathematician Brahmagupta fre- quently uses the ...
... place - value system with the word - symbols , often also expressing the number using the nine numerals and zero [ K. S. Shukla and K. V. Sarma ( 1976 ) ] . 628 CE . Indian astronomer and mathematician Brahmagupta fre- quently uses the ...
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... system is based on the place- value system and possesses zero ( in the form of a little circle ) . See Indian written numeral systems ( Classification of ) . See Fig . 24.11 , 52 and 24.61 to 69 . MALAYALAM NUMERALS . Signs derived from ...
... system is based on the place- value system and possesses zero ( in the form of a little circle ) . See Indian written numeral systems ( Classification of ) . See Fig . 24.11 , 52 and 24.61 to 69 . MALAYALAM NUMERALS . Signs derived from ...
Contents
Ethnological and Psychological Approaches to the Sources of Numbers | 3 |
Base Numbers and the Birth of Numbersystems | 23 |
The Earliest Calculating Machine The Hand | 47 |
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