 | James McKeen Cattell - 1919 - 628 lapas
...Sebokht praises the science of the Hindus and speaks of " their valuable methods of computation. ... I wish only to say that this computation is done by means of nine signs." Unfortunately, he leaves it to us to guess whether or not he used the zero. The passage, written about... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1919 - 636 lapas
...Sebokht praises the science of the Hindus and speaks of " their valuable methods of computation. ... I wish only to say that this computation is done by means of nine signs." Unfortunately, he leaves it to us to guess whether or not he used the zero. The passage, written about... | |
 | David E. Smith - 1958 - 756 lapas
...Controversy on the Origin of our Numerals," The Scientific Monthly, IX, 458. OUR COMMON NOTATION 65 of astronomy, discoveries that are more ingenious...that this computation is done by means of nine signs. Types of Early Hindu Numerals. The early numerals of India were of various types.1 The earliest known... | |
 | Régis Morelon - 1996 - 430 lapas
...of the Greeks and the Babylonians; their valuable methods of calculation; and their computing ihat surpasses description. I wish only to say that this computation is done by means of nine signs. (Smith 1923: voL I. pp. 166-7) The system might have started much earlier in India and might have reached... | |
 | Plinio Prioreschi - 1996 - 539 lapas
...more ingenious than those of the Greeks and the Babylonians; their valuable methods of calculations; and their computing that surpasses description. I wish only to say that this computation is done by the means of nine signs. If those who believe, because they speak Greek, that they have reached the... | |
 | Susantha Goonatilake - 1998 - 334 lapas
...than those of the Greeks and the Babylonians, their computing that surpasses description. ... I wish to say that this computation is done by means of nine...that they have reached the limits of science, should be shown these things, they would be convinced that there are others who know something.4* In the rule... | |
 | Susantha Goonatilake - 1998 - 332 lapas
...than those of the Greeks and the Babylonians, their computing that surpasses description. ... 1 wish to say that this computation is done by means of nine signs. 1f those who believe because they speak Greek, that they have reached the limits of science, should... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 2007 - 473 lapas
...Syrians, Sebokht, in the course of his remarks on astronomy and mathematics, refers to the Hindus, "their valuable methods of calculation ; and their...say that this computation is done by means of nine signs."1 8/0. Some interest attaches to the earliest dates indicating the use of the perfected Hindu... | |
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Babylonians; their valuable methods of calculation; and their computing that surpasses description. I wish only to say that this computation is done by means of nine signs. 