The Archimedean Origin of Modern Positional Number Systems
A symbolic analysis of Archimedes’s periodical number system is developed, from which a natural link emerges with the modern positional number systems with zero. After the publication of Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci, the decimal Indo-Arabic positional system was the basis of the algorithmic and algebraic...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Algorithms |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/17/1/11 |