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NUMBER STORIES

PALM-LEAF ARITHMETIC

An old arithmetic from India, written on strips made from the leaf of a kind of palm

written in this way in India at the time that Gupta lived, and indeed for many years thereafter, and they looked very different from the book which you are reading.
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