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| 9 8 3 oy 9 1 3 10 { Remainders, 
ba 5 6 9 7 8 Dividend. 
oe eee eee Quotient. 
| 2 ‘ Divisor. 
This may be compared with examples in Hindu works 
which are as different as such fundamental operations can well 
be. The Hindus, it may be added, in giving formal illustration 
of inverse operations seldom or never give examples that do 
not ‘come out’ ly. 
Planudes next exhibits operations in the sexagesimal nota- 
tion. Here is an example which means that 14° 23’ multiplied 
by 8° 12’ gives 3 zddia 28° 54’ 8”. fe 
3 28 54 8 Product. 
g 16 ; Factors. 
The following means that 3° 23’ 54” divided by 2 34" 
of =)" 197 14"... ; 
S90 ad 
oe eee 
Reduced dividend. 219884 4 
Reduced divisor =: 9264 
Difference oe 2970 
Reduced difference. 178200 19 — Quotient. 
Divisor | 9264 
Difference > | 2184 
Reduced difference 131040 = 14. — Quotient. 
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These oxa are in themselves absolute and. conv! 
u origin of the work of Planudes. 
