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iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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More than thirty transcripts from the Dunhuang documents have been found to associate with Suanjing by now, The Suanshu “Mathematical handbook” P.2667 had been considered as a transcript of Northern Dynasties, and the Licheng Suanjing-Multiplication Table of Tang Dynasty, the Suanjing Vol. 1, the Tianjibiao and Dimuli of Five Dynasties, and the Yuandijibo of Song Dynasty.among them. There are ten pieces of transcripts to contain the “99”multiplication table. The ancient Tibetan transcript P.t.1256 in the French Library has an integral Multiplication Table, and the content of P.t.1070 is incomplete. A page B59:10 excavated from the Northern zone of the Mogao Grottoes has the double-side ink Tibetan, and it has the incomplete Multiplication Table too. The earliest Chinese digits were used in the Licheng Suanjing, and the Suanjingyijuan used them universally. Manuscripts like S.5751V0, S.12000 and P.2930 also show data copied randomly in other manuscripts. Many ancient Tibetan transcripts in the Dunhuang Museum have the page numbers of ancient Tibetan digits 0-9. In the transcript B59:10, the Tibetan alphanumeric and the Tibetan digits were used together, and the Chinese digits of 1-30 were written with Uighur and Sogdian at the paper back of P.t.1859A and 1869.Three pieces such as Li Shengduo 226 (Japanese Haneda 37), S.5859 and Дx3903 show some contents of the “99”multiplication table, square and division in P.3349, S.19 and S.5779 that have been identified as chapter 1 of Suanjing. Haneda 37 not only contains the three parts, but also is the only one which has the original width of the paper in chapter 1 of Suanjing. Based on textual researches, the six pieces are three transcripts. S.5859 has the following sections of lines 52-81 of P.3349, and they belong to the same transcript. The S.19 and P.3349 have the same content of lines 29-60, so they are two transcripts. Дx3903 has the following sections of lines 53-60 of S.19, and Japanese Haneda 37 has the line 26 of S.19, and the remnants of line 61. So the S.19 was separated at the line 61, and the three transcripts belong to the same one. The first 12 lines of S.5779 have the same content with the lines 100-111 of P.3349, and they don’t belong to the same transcript.