Showing posts with label Zhoubi suanjing. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Zhoubi suanjing



This pages is from the Zhoubi suanjing (Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths of Heaven), a Chinese book on astronomy and mathematics dated to approximately 100 BCE. This diagram illustrates a square of side 4 fitting into a square of side 5.

Zhoubi suanjing