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... practical calculation , which was generally performed on an abacus ; and though symbols were employed to express the result of any numerical computation they were not used in determining it . The geometry was studied in the text - books ...
... practical calculation , which was generally performed on an abacus ; and though symbols were employed to express the result of any numerical computation they were not used in determining it . The geometry was studied in the text - books ...
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... practical applications to the determination of areas were usually added in the form of notes . Even this was too advanced for most students . Thus Roger Bacon , writing towards the close of the thirteenth century , says that at Oxford ...
... practical applications to the determination of areas were usually added in the form of notes . Even this was too advanced for most students . Thus Roger Bacon , writing towards the close of the thirteenth century , says that at Oxford ...
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... practical geometrical problems , such as the determination of the area of a triangle in terms of the lengths of the sides . Some ten or twelve years later , circ . 1230 , the emperor Frederick II . engaged a staff of Jews to translate ...
... practical geometrical problems , such as the determination of the area of a triangle in terms of the lengths of the sides . Some ten or twelve years later , circ . 1230 , the emperor Frederick II . engaged a staff of Jews to translate ...
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... practical questions ; such books usually concluded with algebraic formula ( expressed in words ) for most of the common problems of commerce . Of course the fundamental rules of this algorism were not strictly proved that is the work of ...
... practical questions ; such books usually concluded with algebraic formula ( expressed in words ) for most of the common problems of commerce . Of course the fundamental rules of this algorism were not strictly proved that is the work of ...
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... practical life , and had its place in a course of technical education rather than in the curriculum of a university . These opinions were generally held at that time ' and it will be found that most of the English books on the subject ...
... practical life , and had its place in a course of technical education rather than in the curriculum of a university . These opinions were generally held at that time ' and it will be found that most of the English books on the subject ...
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