Talk:Liber Abaci

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[edit] Wikisource link

There is a link to Liber abaci at Wikisource in the "External links". Unfortunately the book isn't actually there. If and when it does appear, the link should be replaced with {{Wikisource}}. Hairy Dude 01:28, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Faint idea" of place value

Since a large part of the text of Liber Abaci is devoted to explaining, in horrendous detail, the very same algorithms for arithmetic on base-10 numerals that we still employ today, I think describing its notion of place value as a "faint idea", as Milogardner did today, is not only POV, as David Eppstein said in his edit summary, but also manifestly false. Thanks for reverting. -- Dominus 09:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)