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  2. Liber Abaci - Wikipedia

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    The 2, 8, and 9 resemble Arabic numerals more than Eastern Arabic numerals or Indian numerals. The Liber Abaci or Liber Abbaci [1] ( Latin for "The Book of Calculation") was a 1202 Latin work on arithmetic by Leonardo of Pisa, posthumously known as Fibonacci. It is primarily famous for helping popularize Arabic numerals in Europe.

  3. World Book Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    World Book Encyclopedia. The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. [1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. [1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still ...

  4. Fraction - Wikipedia

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    A simple fraction (also known as a common fraction or vulgar fraction, where vulgar is Latin for "common") is a rational number written as a / b or ⁠ ⁠, where a and b are both integers. [9] As with other fractions, the denominator ( b) cannot be zero. Examples include ⁠ 1 2 ⁠, − ⁠ 8 5 ⁠, ⁠ −8 5 ⁠, and ⁠ 8 −5 ⁠.

  5. Multiplication and repeated addition - Wikipedia

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    From the mathematical point of view, multiplication as repeated addition can be extended into fractions. For example, literally calls for “one and three-fourths of the five-sixths.”. This is later significant because students are taught that, in word problems, the word “of” usually indicates a multiplication.

  6. Lowest common denominator - Wikipedia

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    Description. The lowest common denominator of a set of fractions is the lowest number that is a multiple of all the denominators: their lowest common multiple. The product of the denominators is always a common denominator, as in: but it is not always the lowest common denominator, as in: Here, 36 is the least common multiple of 12 and 18.

  7. Sex Criminals - Wikipedia

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    Sex Criminals is a comic book series published by American company Image Comics.It is written by Matt Fraction and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky, set in the Image Universe.The first issue was published on September 25, 2013, and the last issue was published on October 28, 2020, running for 31 issues and one special over six volumes: One Weird Trick, Two Worlds One Cop, Three the Hard Way, Fourgy ...

  8. Ancient Egyptian mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptians almost exclusively used fractions of the form ⁠ 1 / n ⁠. One notable exception is the fraction2 / 3 ⁠, which is frequently found in the mathematical texts. Very rarely a special glyph was used to denote ⁠ 3 / 4 ⁠. The fraction1 / 2 ⁠ was represented by

  9. World Book Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The World Book Dictionary was last edited and updated by Robert and Cynthia Barnhart in 1996. Robert Barnhart died in 2007, and Cynthia Barnhart went on to produce the Facts on File Student's Dictionary of American English (2008). David Barnhart continues to edit the Barnhart Dictionary Companion and the Barnhart New-Words Concordance. [1]

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