• The Book on Numbers and Computation (Chinese: 筭數書; pinyin: Suàn shù shū), or the Writings on Reckoning, is one of the earliest known Chinese mathematical...
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    time when The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art reached its final form, while the Book on Numbers and Computation and Huainanzi are roughly contemporary...
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    real computation deals with hypothetical computing machines using infinite-precision real numbers. They are given this name because they operate on the...
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  • A computation is any type of arithmetic or non-arithmetic calculation that is well-defined. Common examples of computation are mathematical equation solving...
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  • Science and Civilisation in China series, succeeding Joseph Needham. His own area of research is the Han Dynasty and he translated the Book on Numbers and Computation...
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  • Zhangjiashan Han bamboo texts (category Bamboo and wooden slips)
    to 186 BC. The mathematical work found within the tomb, the Book on Numbers and Computation, rapidly advanced the state of the field of ancient Chinese...
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    Sunzi Suanjing (category Northern and Southern dynasties literature)
    were many ancient books on mathematics such as Book on Numbers and Computation and The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, no detailed account of the...
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    usually based on numerical computation with approximate floating point numbers, while symbolic computation emphasizes exact computation with expressions...
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  • Sections and names the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola. 202 BC to 186 BC –China, Book on Numbers and Computation, a mathematical treatise, is written in...
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    Han dynasty (category States and territories established in the 3rd century BC)
    treatises still exist. These are the Book on Numbers and Computation, the Zhoubi Suanjing, and the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. Han mathematical...
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  • independently. The final form of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art and the Book on Numbers and Computation and Huainanzi are roughly contemporary with classical...
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  • complexity. If one knows an upper bound on the size of the binary representation of the numbers that occur during a computation, the time complexity is generally...
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  • Chinese Book on Numbers and Computation as one of its case studies; it asks which cultural accomplishments should be counted as mathematics, and who counted...
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  • represent numbers, and arithmetic was accomplished with rod calculus and later the suanpan. The Book on Numbers and Computation and the Nine Chapters on the...
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    original on 5 October 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2021. Wagstaff, Samuel S. (January 1983). "Divisors of Mersenne numbers". Mathematics of Computation. 40 (161):...
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  • found in Jordan. Zhangjiashan Han bamboo texts, including the Book on Numbers and Computation, from tomb M247 at Mount Zhangjia in central China. Kitora...
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  • articles about prime numbers. A prime number (or prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. By Euclid's...
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    is a mathematical sequence of numbers. The table below is a brief chronology of computed numerical values of, or bounds on, the mathematical constant pi...
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    and thus immobilized the instrument until it was reset. One of the earliest surviving mathematical treatises of ancient China is the Book on Numbers and...
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    natural numbers) rather than "continuous" (analogously to continuous functions). Objects studied in discrete mathematics include integers, graphs, and statements...
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    Lenore Blum (category University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty)
    Blum–Shub–Smale machine, a theoretical model of computation over the real numbers. Blum and her co-authors, Michael Shub and Stephen Smale, showed that (analogously...
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    Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of...
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  • Complexity and Real Computation is a book on the computational complexity theory of real computation. It studies algorithms whose inputs and outputs are...
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  • Halting problem (category Theory of computation)
    the Theory of Computation (Second ed.). PWS Publishing. pp. 173–182. ISBN 0-534-94728-X. Turing, A. M. (1937). "On Computable Numbers, with an Application...
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    Perfect Prime Numbers". Mathematics of Computation. 27 (124): 951–953. doi:10.2307/2005530. JSTOR 2005530. Riele, H.J.J. "Perfect Numbers and Aliquot Sequences"...
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  • as reverse computation in software application areas such as database design, checkpointing and debugging, and code differentiation. Based on the successful...
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    original on 2021-07-18. Retrieved 2016-01-31. Hagis, Peter, Jr. (1969). "On relatively prime odd amicable numbers". Mathematics of Computation. 23 (107):...
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    the Book on Numbers and Computation (Suan shu shu) The Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths of Heaven (Zhoubi Suanjing), and the...
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    Evaluate = FFT/IFFT For implemantion details, one can read the book Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective. This variant differs somewhat from Schönhage's...
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    Arithmetic (section Numbers)
    numbers are represented, how arithmetic operations and rounding are performed, and how errors and exceptions are handled. In cases where computation speed...
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