Algorithms; Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900; Mathematics -- History
Si tu per numerum numerum vis multiplicare,
Scribe duas, quascunque volis, series numerorum; 104
Ordo tamen seruetur vt vltima multiplicandi
Ponatur super anteriorem multiplicantis;
[{12}][A leua relique sint scripte multiplicantes.]
In digitum cures digitum si ducere, major 108
Per quantes distat a denis respice, debes
Namque suo decuplo tociens delere minorem;
Sicque tibi numerus veniens exinde patebit.
Postea procedas postremam multiplicando, 112
Juste multiplicans per cunctas inferiores,
Condicione tamen tali; quod multiplicantis
Scribas in capite, quicquid processerit inde;
Set postquam fuerit hec multiplicata, figure 116
Anteriorentur seriei multiplicantis;
Et sic multiplica, velut istam multiplicasti,
Qui sequitur numerum scriptum quicunque figuris.
Set cum multiplicas, primo sic est operandum, 120
Si dabit articulum tibi multiplicacio solum;
Proposita cifra, summam transferre memento.
Sin autem digitus excrescerit articulusque,
Articulus supraposito digito salit ultra; 124
Si digitus tamen, ponas illum super ipsam,
Subdita multiplicans hanc que super incidit illi
Delet eam penitus, scribens quod provenit inde;
Sed si multiplices illam posite super ipsam, 128
Adiungens numerum quem prebet ductus earum;
Si supraimpositam cifra debet multiplicare,
Prorsus eam delet, scribi que loco cifra debet,
[{12}][Si cifra multiplicat aliam positam super ipsam, 132
Sitque locus supra vacuus super hanc cifra fiet;]
Si supra fuerit cifra semper pretereunda est;
Si dubites, an sit bene multiplicando secunda,
Diuide totalem numerum per multiplicantem, 136
Et reddet numerus emergens inde priorem.
[Sidenote: Mental Multiplication.]
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