Experts discover China’s most ancient mathematics document

Experts discover China’s most ancient mathematics document

A group of experts announced Tuesday the discovery of a mathematics document 2,200 years old, the most ancient ever found in this country. It consists of inscriptions on bamboo sheets from the Warring States period between 475-221 B.C., which explain methods of multiplying numbers lower than 100 as well as certain fractions, historian Li Xueqin, […]