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Filed under: Quipu Quipus and Witches' Knots: The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Cultures; With a Translation and Analysis of "Oribasis De Laqueis" (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1967), by Cyrus Lawrence Day, contrib. by Oribasius
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Filed under: Mathematical instruments
Filed under: Calculators The Theory of Digital Handling of Non-Numerical Information and its Implications to Machine Economics (Zator Technical Bulletin #48; Boston: Zator Co., c1950), by Calvin N. Mooers (page images at HathiTrust) A Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., President of the Royal Society, etc., etc., on the Application of Machinery to the Purpose of Calculating and Printing Mathematical Tables (London: J. Booth; and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822), by Charles Babbage Linear Computations (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1951), by Paul S. Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust) Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation, ed. by E. M. Horsburgh (page images at Cornell)
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