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Numbers

John Tabak · 2011

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Deals with numbers from the point of view of computation, beginning with the earliest number concepts from ancient Mesopotamian, Chinese, and Mayan mathematicians. It describes the origin and diffusion of Arabic numerals, and it concludes with a discussion of the way that the number system is represented within computers. --from publisher description

Book details

Year
2011
Language
English
Series
History of mathematics
Publisher
Facts On File
Editions
1
Pages
243
ISBN
9780816079407

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