oldest known tables using a base of 10 are the Chinese decimal multiplication table on bamboo strips dating to about 305 BC, during China's Warring States...
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The Chinese multiplication table is the first requisite for using the Rod calculus for carrying out multiplication, division, the extraction of square...
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value addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The Chinese were already using a decimal multiplication table by the end of the Warring States...
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of two multiplication methods used by scribes, is a systematic method for multiplying two numbers that does not require the multiplication table, only...
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Iteration mark (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
Similarly, in certain Chinese borrowings, it is generally preferred to write out both characters, as in 九九 (ku-ku Chinese multiplication table) or 担担麺 (tan-tan-men...
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Tsinghua Bamboo Slips (category Multiplication)
Bamboo Strips represent "the world's oldest example" of a decimal multiplication table. The Tsinghua Bamboo Strips (TBS) were donated to Tsinghua University...
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Rod calculus (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
simple 45 phrase positional decimal multiplication table used in China since antiquity, called the nine-nine table, which were learned by heart by pupils...
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Suanpan (redirect from Abacus chinese)
suanpan (simplified Chinese: 算盘; traditional Chinese: 算盤; pinyin: suànpán), also spelled suan pan or souanpan) is an abacus of Chinese origin, earliest first...
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n-1\}} of n non-negative integers form a group under multiplication modulo n, called the multiplicative group of integers modulo n. Equivalently, the elements...
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Binary number (redirect from Binary multiplication)
15625 in decimal) See also Booth's multiplication algorithm. The binary multiplication table is the same as the truth table of the logical conjunction operation...
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"Ancient times table hidden in Chinese bamboo strips. The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table". Nature. doi:10...
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so-called standard methods for both multiplication and division which require only the use of the multiplication table. These methods were chosen for efficiency...
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matrix. Matrices are subject to standard operations such as addition and multiplication. Most commonly, a matrix over a field F is a rectangular array of elements...
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Abacus (category CS1 Chinese-language sources (zh))
multiple methods to perform calculations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square and cube roots. The beads are first arranged to...
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Interpunct (redirect from Multiplication dot)
point in British publications, such as tables of constants (e.g., "π = 3·14159"). Conversely the multiplication sign was a full stop (period).[citation...
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Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in written Chinese. Today, speakers of Chinese languages use three written numeral systems:...
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Arithmetic (redirect from Multiplicative operator)
mathematics that studies numerical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In a wider sense, it also includes exponentiation, extraction...
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x\in S} and m {\displaystyle m} is the size of the table. The scheme in hashing by multiplication is as follows:: 2–3 h ( x ) = ⌊ m ( ( x A ) mod 1 )...
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Modular arithmetic (redirect from Modular multiplication)
of modular arithmetic in art. An article on modular arithmetic on the GIMPS wiki Modular Arithmetic and patterns in addition and multiplication tables...
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Liye Qin Slips (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
script and Dunhuang manuscripts. The world's oldest example of a multiplication table was found here. The slips, used for writing in ancient times, have...
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aspects of pre-Qin mathematics, such as the first known decimal multiplication table. The abacus was first mentioned in the second century BC, alongside...
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Natural number (section Multiplication)
and multiplication (×) operations on natural numbers as defined above have several algebraic properties: Closure under addition and multiplication: for...
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Finite field (section Multiplicative structure)
with any field, a finite field is a set on which the operations of multiplication, addition, subtraction and division are defined and satisfy certain...
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Decimal (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
earliest positional decimal system was the Chinese rod calculus. Starting from the 2nd century BCE, some Chinese units for length were based on divisions...
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History of logarithms (section Tables of logarithms)
of a correspondence (in modern terms, a group isomorphism) between multiplication on the positive real numbers and addition on the real number line that...
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Chemical symbol – Abbreviations used in chemistry Chinese punctuation – Punctuation used with Chinese characters Currency symbol – Symbol used to represent...
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of arithmetic. The other operations are addition, subtraction, and multiplication. What is being divided is called the dividend, which is divided by the...
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Xuan tu (category Articles containing simplified Chinese-language text)
The rectangle originate from the fact that 9x9 = 81 (that is, the multiplication table or properties of numbers as such). Thus let us cut a rectangle (diagonally)...
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Ming dynasty (redirect from Ming (Chinese name))
throughout the provinces. For young schoolchildren there were printed multiplication tables and primers for elementary vocabulary; for adult examination candidates...
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Warring States period (redirect from Warring States Period - China)
"Ancient times table hidden in Chinese bamboo strips: The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature...
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