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    Principles of Hindu Reckoning (Kitab fi usul hisab al-hind) is a mathematics book written by the 10th- and 11th-century Persian mathematician Kushyar...
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    Kitab fi usul hisab al-hind (Principles of Hindu Reckoning) is one of the oldest surviving manuscripts using the Hindu numerals. These books are principally...
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  • Kushyar Gilani (category Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world)
    end of the century. He wrote also an astrological introduction and an arithmetic treatise Kitab fi usul hisab al-hind (Principles of Hindu Reckoning, that...
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    al-Hisab al-Hindi and in 11th century Kushyar ibn Labban's Principles of Hindu Reckoning were identical to Sunzu's division algorithm. If there is a...
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    begins with the winter solstice. Hindu calendars have several eras: The Hindu calendar, counting from the start of the Kali Yuga, has its epoch on 18...
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    sort of intellectual reckoning (sankhaa) do not apply to the liberated sage. Since the Hindu scriptures are essentially silent on the issue of religious...
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    Abacus (redirect from Reckoning frame)
    century, Indian clerks were already finding new ways of recording the contents of the abacus. Hindu texts used the term śūnya (zero) to indicate the empty...
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    the "Day of Resurrection" (yawm al-qiyāma), "Day of Judgment" (yawm ad-dīn), and "Day of Reckoning" (yawm al-ḥisāb), as well as both the "Day of Separation"...
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    Surya Siddhanta (category Hindu astronomy)
    student of Aryabhatta I. The second verse of the first chapter of the Surya Siddhanta attributes the words to an emissary of the solar deity of Hindu mythology...
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  • around three fundamental principles: the oneness (Tawhid) and justice (Al-'adl) of God, human freedom of action, and the creation of the Quran. The Mu'tazilites...
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