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... principles were employed the additive and multiplica- tive . Numbers below 100 were expressed by symbols whose respective values had to be added . Thus , stood for 2 , vy for 3 , for 4 , for 23 , <<< for 30. Here the symbols of higher ...
... principles were employed the additive and multiplica- tive . Numbers below 100 were expressed by symbols whose respective values had to be added . Thus , stood for 2 , vy for 3 , for 4 , for 23 , <<< for 30. Here the symbols of higher ...
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... principle of position " was employed . Thus , in 1.4 ( = 64 ) , the 1 is made to stand for 60 , the unit of the second order , by virtue of its position with respect to the 4. The introduction of this principle at so early a date is the ...
... principle of position " was employed . Thus , in 1.4 ( = 64 ) , the 1 is made to stand for 60 , the unit of the second order , by virtue of its position with respect to the 4. The introduction of this principle at so early a date is the ...
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... principle employed was the additive . Thus , 23 was written il Besides the hieroglyphics , Egypt possesses the hieratic and demotic writings , but for want of space we pass them by . Herodotus makes an important statement concerning the ...
... principle employed was the additive . Thus , 23 was written il Besides the hieroglyphics , Egypt possesses the hieratic and demotic writings , but for want of space we pass them by . Herodotus makes an important statement concerning the ...
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... principles to the bottom , and investigated its theorems in an immaterial and intellectual manner . " His geometry was connected closely with his arithmetic . He was especially fond of those geometrical relations which admitted of ...
... principles to the bottom , and investigated its theorems in an immaterial and intellectual manner . " His geometry was connected closely with his arithmetic . He was especially fond of those geometrical relations which admitted of ...
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... principle of virtual velocities . About his time there appeared a work called Mechanica , of which he is regarded by some as the author . Mechanics was totally neglected by the Platonic school . The First Alexandrian School . In the ...
... principle of virtual velocities . About his time there appeared a work called Mechanica , of which he is regarded by some as the author . Mechanics was totally neglected by the Platonic school . The First Alexandrian School . In the ...
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