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  2. Chinese numerals - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Wylie, Christian missionary to China, in 1853 already refuted the notion that "the Chinese numbers were written in words at length", and stated that in ancient China, calculation was carried out by means of counting rods, and "the written character is evidently a rude presentation of these". After being introduced to the rod numerals ...

  3. Counting rods - Wikipedia

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    Counting rods (筭) are small bars, typically 3–14 cm (1" to 6") long, that were used by mathematicians for calculation in ancient East Asia.They are placed either horizontally or vertically to represent any integer or rational number.

  4. Rod calculus - Wikipedia

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    Rod numerals is the only numeric system that uses different placement combination of a single symbol to convey any number or fraction in the Decimal System. For numbers in the units place, every vertical rod represent 1. Two vertical rods represent 2, and so on, until 5 vertical rods, which represents 5.

  5. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Number systems have progressed from the use of fingers and tally marks, perhaps more than 40,000 years ago, to the use of sets of glyphs able to represent any conceivable number efficiently. The earliest known unambiguous notations for numbers emerged in Mesopotamia about 5000 or 6000 years ago.

  6. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Such method is 6.7% more efficient than MIME-64 which encodes a 24 bit number into 4 printable characters. 89: Largest base for which all left-truncatable primes are known. 90: Nonagesimal: Related to Goormaghtigh conjecture for the generalized repunit numbers (111 in base 90 = 1111111111111 in base 2). 95: Number of printable ASCII characters ...

  7. Suzhou numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Suzhou numerals, also known as Sūzhōu mǎzi (蘇州碼子), is a numeral system used in China before the introduction of Hindu numerals.The Suzhou numerals are also known as Soochow numerals, [1] ma‑tzu, [2] huāmǎ (花碼), [3] [better source needed] cǎomǎ (草碼), [3] [better source needed] jīngzǐmǎ (菁仔碼), [3] [better source needed] fānzǐmǎ (番仔碼) [3] [better ...

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  9. Chinese mathematics - Wikipedia

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    In the Han dynasty, numbers were developed into a place value decimal system and used on a counting board with a set of counting rods called rod calculus, consisting of only nine symbols with a blank space on the counting board representing zero. [3] Negative numbers and fractions were also incorporated into solutions of the great mathematical ...