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| Errors that have been corrected (corrected typos are not listed) |
| Errors to be corrected |
| page 17, first line : brilliant idea of the ndians --> brilliant idea of the Indians |
| Notes |
| page 14 : In the text, we attribute the invention of the decimal positional notation for expressing tens, hundreds, and so on to the Indians. Historilcally, the technique of positional notation actually appears in Babylonian tablets from the early second millennium BCE. However, the fully developed Indo-Arabic system originated in India, roughly between 500 BCE and 500 CE. |
| page 19 : here is an electronic implementation of counting in the binary system : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQecYzbpnc |