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Fibonacci's Composed Fractions


Leonardo of Pisa (c1170-1241+), better known as Fibonacci, wrote Liber Abaci to introduce and advocate the adoption of “Indian figures” (Hindu-Arabic numerals) to Italy. The book explains how to perform arithmetic and common business problems using the digits and a positional number system.

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