On the existing fragments of Yang Hui's `Hsiang Chieh Suan Fa' (Q2537093)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3299662
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3299662 |
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On the existing fragments of Yang Hui's `Hsiang Chieh Suan Fa' (English)
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1969
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The existing fragments of one of Yang Hui's earliest works, the ``Hsiang Chieh Suan Fa'' (1261) are grouped, translated and commented on in this paper. Two important factors of the collection are pointed out. Firstly, the ``Hsiang Chieh Suan Fa'' has the earliest extant representation of the ``Pascal Triangle'' and secondly, there is a problem on the extraction of the fourth root whose solution illustrates clearly Horner's Method (1819) of solving numerical equations of higher degree.
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