Chinese Miscellanies
Subtitle: A Collection of Essays and Notes
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781421242385
Subjects: society,essays,notes,tradition,customs of nations,Chinese miscellanies; History / Asia; History / Far East
First sentence: WITH reference to the science of numbers, it has been observed of the Chinese arithmetic, as well as of their weights and measures, that they proceed universally on the decimal scale, and that decimal fractions are their vulgar fractions, or those in common use.