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Quote: Leonardo wrote a voluminous compendium of Arabic arithmetic and mercantile practice; includes the Fibonacci series

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history of mathematics

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[Leonardo] was a merchant of Pisa who traveled … [Liber abaci] is a voluminous compendium on arithmetic and … , simultaneous sets of equations, square and cube … [It includes the rabbit problem (a Fibonacci series): "How many pairs of rabbits can be bred from one pair in one year?"]   Google-1   Google-2

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