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Systematic Treatise on Arithmetic

work by Ch’eng Ta-wei

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arithmetic of the abacus

  • Counting boards and markers, or counting rods, were used in China to solve systems of linear equations. This is an example from the 1st century ce.
    In East Asian mathematics: Fall into oblivion, 14th–16th centuries

    …them, the Suanfa tongzong (“Systematic Treatise on Mathematics”) by Cheng Dawei (1592), had a special significance. In addition to its detailed treatment of arithmetic on the abacus, it provided a summa of mathematical knowledge assembled by the author after 20 years of bibliographic research. Re-edited several times through the…

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