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    Rod calculus or rod calculation was the mechanical method of algorithmic computation with counting rods in China from the Warring States to Ming dynasty...
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    method for using counting rods for mathematical calculation was called rod calculation or rod calculus (筹算). Rod calculus can be used for a wide range...
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    The Chinese multiplication table is the first requisite for using the Rod calculus for carrying out multiplication, division, the extraction of square roots...
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    drawn on sand board remained in place from beginning to end, while in rod calculus, rods from lower rows were physically removed and add to upper row, digit...
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    differential calculus is a subfield of calculus that studies the rates at which quantities change. It is one of the two traditional divisions of calculus, the...
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    fractions were first developed and used by the Chinese in the form of rod calculus in the 1st century BC, and then spread to the rest of the world. J. Lennart...
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    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...
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    written out in words, although the early Chinese mathematicians employed Rod calculus involving place value addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division...
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    000. The world's earliest positional decimal system was the Chinese rod calculus. Starting from the 2nd century BCE, some Chinese units for length were...
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  • began with the wide use of counting rods in China. The earliest written positional records seem to be rod calculus results in China around 400. Zero was...
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    1 chi = 10 cun. Calculation was carried out with place value decimal Rod calculus. Liu Hui used his rectangle in right angle triangle theorem as the mathematical...
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    Dowsing (redirect from Divining rod)
    Ralph Whitlock Professor Calculus Wikisource has the text of the 1905 New International Encyclopedia article "Divining-rod". Alpha 6 (device) American...
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  • China, from ancient times counting rods were used to represent numbers, and arithmetic was accomplished with rod calculus and later the suanpan. The Book...
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    Qin Jiushao solved third order equation with rod calculus...
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    than the actual value of π. Liu Hui carried out his calculation with rod calculus, and expressed his results with fractions. However, the iterative nature...
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    Kidney stone disease is known as renal calculus disease, nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis in medical terminology. "Renal" is Latin for kidney, while "nephro"...
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  • theorem is developed by Sun Tzu. 300 to 500 – China, a description of rod calculus is written by Sun Tzu. 412 – 485 – Greece, Proclus 420 – 480 – Greece...
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  • derived using calculus as functions of angle (angle domain) and of time (time domain). The geometry of the system consisting of the piston, rod and crank...
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  • Tractor calculus is important for treating geometries in this class, and a current theme of his work is the further development of this calculus, its relationship...
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    "Global curvature and self-contact of nonlinearly elastic curves and rods", Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 14 (1): 29–68, doi:10...
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  • and the manipulation of formulas. Calculus, consisting of the two subfields differential calculus and integral calculus, is the study of continuous functions...
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    the concepts now known as calculus. Independently, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, developed calculus and much of the calculus notation still in use today...
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    gaining his Bachelor of Science degree in 1967 and PhD in 1972 supervised by Rod Burstall. Plotkin has remained at Edinburgh, and was, with Burstall and Robin...
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    opponents. He was also known for regularly heckling upon the arrival of Black Rod in the House of Commons chamber during the State Opening of Parliament. During...
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    and calculus (tartar) in order to maintain dental health. Debridement may be performed using ultrasonic instruments, which fracture the calculus, thereby...
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    of the worm ouroboros embedded in a mathematical, non-numerical calculus". The calculus derives from the confluence of the cybernetic logic of feedback...
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    imparted to or received from the shaft. When combined with a connecting rod, it can be used to convert circular motion into reciprocating motion, or...
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    Wandsworth.gov.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2017. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015...
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    Augustin-Louis Cauchy (category History of calculus)
    was one of the first to rigorously state and prove the key theorems of calculus (thereby creating real analysis), pioneered the field complex analysis...
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    Whistling Calculus for Tax Purposes (TV Series) (1989) "Brian Eno is MORE DARK THAN SHARK". Moredarkthanshark.org. Retrieved 13 February 2021. "Rod Melvin"...
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