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كتاب الفصول في الحساب الهندي

The Arithmetic of al-Uqlīdisī

Earliest extant Arabic manual of Indian (dust-board) arithmetic, adapted to pen and paper, with the earliest use of decimal fractions.

Language
Arabic
Date
952–953 CE
Author
Abū l-Ḥasan al-Uqlīdisī
Place
Dimashq (Damascus)
Text
not yet digitised (catalogue entry)