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  1. The Arabic Origins and Development of Latin Algorisms in the Twelfth Century.André Allard - 1991 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 1 (2):233.
    In the absence of the Arabic text of al-Khw's Arithmetic, which has not yet been found, the oldest Latin adaptations from the twelfth century are the only evidence documenting the genesis and the first spreading of a decimal arithmetic that uses nine figures and zero, i.e. the Indian reckoning known in the Middle Ages as algorismus. This paper studies these texts, their content, their sources, and identifies their authors and the milieus in which they were written.
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  • Al-samaw'al, al-bīrūnī et brahmagupta: Les méthodes d'interpolation*: Roshdi Rashed.Roshdi Rashed - 1991 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 1 (1):101-160.
    In a manuscript which is being studied here for the first time, al-Samaw'al quotes a paragraph from al-Bīrūnī which shows that the latter knew not only of Brahmagupta's method of quadratic interpolation, but also of another Indian method. Al-Samaw'al examines these methods, as well as linear interpolation, compares them, and evaluates their respective results. He also tries to improve them. In this article the author shows that al-Bīrūnī had used four methods of interpolation, two of which were of Indian origin; (...)
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  • L'Extraction de la Racine nième et l'Invention des Fractions Décimales.Roshdi Rashed - 1978 - Archive for History of Exact Sciences 18 (3):191-243.
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  • Des nombres irrationneles en Chine entre le premier et le troisième siècle.Karine Chemla - 1992 - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 45 (1):135-140.
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