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Ver p. 554 de Victor Katz (ed.), The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Chi-
na, India, and Islam, Princeton University Press 2007, e p. 15 de J. L. Berggren,
Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam, Springer 1986.
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Disponível em http://archive.org/details/universalarithm00hallgoog.