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Re: CHAT: Ethnomathematics, etc. (was Re: OT: In the 'ignorance on parade' file

From:<bjm10@...>
Date:Friday, August 17, 2001, 19:34
Japanese mathematics was very advanced, even solving problems that Europe
had to wait until calculus was invented to solve, but the solutions were
very often non-numerical.  Many of these solutions ended up as
"decoration" in temples.

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Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>