Posted on 09/10/2024 9:41:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Asahi Shimbun reports that scientists from Japan's Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties have identified the function of a six-inch strip of wood unearthed in 2001 at a government workers' office in the ancient capital of Fujiwara-kyo. Infrared imaging of the object revealed that the fragment is part of a 1,300-year-old multiplication table written in kanji. The entire multiplication table with all of the equations written out was likely about 13 inches long, explained team member Kuniya Kuwata. In this section, which was likely from the upper-right corner of the document, the equations were written in five rows from right to left and top to bottom in a style used by China's Qin and Han dynasties, from about the third century B.C. to the third century A.D. Multiplication tables previously discovered in Japan have only had two to three rows, Kuwata explained. The office workers would have needed to know the multiplication table, in addition to reading and writing, the researchers concluded.
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What sort of number system did Japan have?
Try multiplying VI x IX to get LIV
Today's "Pluggers" cartoon is somewhat related.
Your post makes no sense.
Wow Japanese figured out a multiplication table centuries ago. Big freaking deal. It’s common sense
Since you have no interest in the topic, your continued trolling makes you look foolish.
So for somebody to have an interest in a topic that interest Hass to be positive at all times. What if somebody has a negative interest in a topic. Which I do on this particular topic. To state or believe that this is some magical find that the ancient Japanese knew how to do multiplication is absolutely absurd. A damn caveman can figure out 2×2 = 4
You continue to look foolish.
I continue to be 100% correct
No, you continue to look foolish.
What? The kids don't have to do it any more?
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