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''Wujing Suanshu'' (五經算術; translated as ''Mathematical Procedures of the Five Canons'' or ''Arithmetic methods in the Five Classics'') is a 6th-century Chinese mathematical text written by
Zhen Luan Zhen Luan (甄鸾) (535 – 566) was a Chinese mathematician, astronomer, daoist and buddhist who was active during the Northern Zhou (557-581) of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period. Born in the Wuji County of the present day Hubei Provi ...
(535 – 566).{{cite web , title= History of Mathematics: China , url= http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/china.html During the early Tang dynasty, the text was selected to be part of the collection '' Ten Computational Canons''.


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Chinese mathematics texts 6th-century books