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  2. Milü - Wikipedia

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    Zu's contemporary calendarist and mathematician He Chengtian invented a fraction interpolation method called "harmonization of the divisor of the day" (Chinese: zh:调日法; pinyin: diaorifa) to increase the accuracy of approximations of π by iteratively adding the numerators and denominators of fractions.

  3. Chinese mathematics - Wikipedia

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    He was the first Chinese mathematician to calculate π=3.1416 with his π algorithm. He discovered the usage of Cavalieri's principle to find an accurate formula for the volume of a cylinder, and also developed elements of the infinitesimal calculus during the 3rd century CE. fraction interpolation for pi

  4. List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs - Wikipedia

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    There are also special symbols in Chinese arts, such as the qilin, and the Chinese dragon. [1] According to Chinese beliefs, being surrounding by objects which are decorated with such auspicious symbols and motifs was and continues to be believed to increase the likelihood that those wishes would be fulfilled even in present-day. [2]

  5. Rod calculus - Wikipedia

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    Fenzi and Fenmu are also the modern Chinese name for numerator and denominator, respectively. As shown on the right, 1 is the numerator remainder, 7 is the denominator divisor, formed a fraction ⁠ 1 / 7 ⁠. The quotient of the division ⁠ 309 / 7 ⁠ is 44 + ⁠ 1 / 7 ⁠. Liu Hui used a lot of calculations with fractions in Haidao Suanjing.

  6. List of Commonly Used Standard Chinese Characters - Wikipedia

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    The list also offers a table of correspondences between 2,546 Simplified Chinese characters and 2,574 Traditional Chinese characters, along with other selected variant forms. This table replaced all previous related standards, and provides the authoritative list of characters and glyph shapes for Simplified Chinese in China. The Table ...

  7. Chinese numerals - Wikipedia

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    The original Chinese character is 空 or 〇, 零 is referred as remainder something less than 1 yet not nil [說文] referred. The traditional 零 is more often used in schools. In Unicode, 〇 is treated as a Chinese symbol or punctuation, rather than a Chinese ideograph. 1: 壹: 一: yī: jat1: it, tsi̍t: 7 iq

  8. Chinese character components - Wikipedia

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    The structure of a Chinese character is the pattern or rule in which the character is formed by its (first level) components. [4] The structures includes: [ 5 ] Single-component structure: The character is formed by a single primitive component, such as 口 , 日 and 月 .

  9. List of mathematical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    lerp – linear interpolation. [5] lg – common logarithm (log 10) or binary logarithm (log 2). LHS – left-hand side of an equation. Li – offset logarithmic integral function. li – logarithmic integral function or linearly independent. lim – limit of a sequence, or of a function. lim inf – limit inferior. lim sup – limit superior.