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  Nicolas Chuquet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nicolas Chuquet (born 1445 (some sources say c.
Chuquet's thinking was brilliant and far ahead of its time.
Chuquet was, however, the original author of the earliest work using of a systematic, extended series of names ending in -illion or -yllion.
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 Nicolas Chuquet biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chuquet was, however, the original author of the first published use of a systematic, extended series of names ending in -illion or -yllion.
Chuquet, however, refers to these names only in passing, and, oddly enough, in one place he uses them to mean powers of a million, and in another he uses them in the "American style":
Chuquet's work had little direct influence because his work was not published until the 1870s, but most of it was copied (without attribution) by Estienne de la Roche for a portion of his 1520 book, Larismetique.
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 Names of large numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nicolas Chuquet's book Triparty en la science des nombres was not published during his lifetime, but most of it was copied by for a portion of his 1520 book, Larismetique.
Chuquet is sometimes credited with "inventing" the names million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, and so forth.
One obvious possibility is that words similar to "billion" and "trillion" were already in use and well-known, but that Chuquet, an expert in exponentiation, did extend the naming scheme and invent the names for the higher powers.
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 Nicolas Chuquet Biography / Biography of Nicolas Chuquet History of Scientific Discovery Biography
Chuquet's accomplishments are known mainly from a book published in 1520 by a fellow Frenchman, Etienne de la Roche, who also went by the name Villefranche.
Chuquet was born in Paris, France, where he pursued many studies, concentrating specifically in the field of medicine.
Chuquet was not as progressive in his treatment of negative numbers, referring to them as "absurd numbers." However, Chuquet's many other improvements of algebraic methods helped influence future mathematicians, particularly Italian Luca Pacioli (1445?-1514?), who published a work on bookkeeping by double entry entitled Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita in 1494.
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 Nicolas Chuquet History Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chuquet was born in Paris in 1445, and from about 1480 worked in Lyon as a medical doctor and copyist or master of writing.
Finally, Chuquet was able to provide the solution to a problem that in modern terms would be written as 4x = -2, perhaps the first notable use of a negative number in an algebraic equation.
Chuquet even came close to the idea of an imaginary number—e.g., the square root of a negative integer—but failed to recognize how this could be of practical value.
www.bookrags.com /history/sciencehistory/nicolas-chuquet-scit-03123   (556 words)

  
 References for Chuquet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
G Beaujouan, The place of Nicolas Chuquet in a typology of fifteenth- century French arithmetics, in C Hay (ed.), Mathematics from manuscript to print 1300-1600 (Oxford, 1988), 73-88.
P Benoit, The commercial arithmetic of Nicolas Chuquet, in C Hay (ed.), Mathematics from manuscript to print 1300-1600 (Oxford, 1988), 96-116.
H L'Huillier, Concerning the method employed by Nicolas Chuquet for the extraction of cube roots, in C Hay (ed.), Mathematics from manuscript to print 1300-1600 (Oxford, 1988), 89-95.
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/References/Chuquet.html   (171 words)

  
 Talk:Names of large numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Third, neither Adam nor Chuquet claimed authorship, and apparently the context of their references to the names suggests they were in use earlier.
Chuquet intended the names to represent powers of 1000 as the quote above clearly shows.
Chuquet proposed names for specific numbers up to a decillion centuries ago, and with small variations they've made it into the dictionaries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Names_of_large_numbers   (4396 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chuquet theorized that given two ratios, a/b and c/d, the ratio (a+c)/(b+d) would fall between the two original ratios.
Chuquet realized that square roots that are not integers are irrational, and he acknowledged that his method would never allow him to find a square root exactly.
In the second part, Chuquet applies his fraction rule to the calculation of square roots of numbers which are not perfect squares.
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 Chuquet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nicolas Chuquet describes himself as a Parisian and says that he is a bachelor of medicine.
For example in the registers of 1485 and 1487 he is described as "Nicolas Chuquet, algoriste".
When Chuquet's manuscript was found it was seen at once that La Roche had copied Chuquet's Triparty en la science des nombres.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Chuquet.html   (319 words)

  
 Names of large numbers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nicolas Chuquet's book Triparty en la science des nombres was not published during his lifetime, but most of it was copied by Estienne de la Roche for a portion of his 1520 book, Larismetique.
Because of this passage, Chuquet is sometimes credited with "inventing" the names million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, and so forth.
Both Adam and Chuquet applied the names to powers of a million; that is, a bimillion (Adam) or byllion (Chuquet) was 10
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/n/na/names_of_large_numbers.html   (2073 words)

  
 names of big numbers
Chuquet's treatise was not published in his lifetime, but a man who may have been his pupil, Éstienne de la Roche (1470–1530), used it as the first part of a textbook he published in 1520
Chuquet's practice of dividing a number into groups of six is almost unique, even in its own time, though it is used by John Locke (1690):
Even today we use thousands separators, whether a space (as is recommended with SI), a point or a comma.
www.sizes.com /numbers/big_numName.htm   (2248 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
There is no evidence that he attended a university or that Chuquet taught at any university.
In 1880 Aristide Marre published Chuquet's Triparty which only existed in manuscript form and suddenly La Roche was a plagiarist.
Graham Flegg, Cynthia Hay, and Barbara Moss, (eds.), Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician, (Dordrecht, 1985).
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/laroche.html   (276 words)

  
 Long scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1484: French mathematician Nicolas Chuquet, in his article "Triparty en la science de nombres"[1] (http://www.miakinen.net/vrac/nombres#lettres_zillions), used the words byllion, tryllion, quadrillion, quyllion, sixlion, septyllion, ottyllion, and nonyllion to refer to 10
, etc.; Chuquet's work had little direct influence because it was not published until the 1870s, but most of it was copied (without attribution) by for a portion of his 1520 book,
This word was widely adopted in England, Germany, and the rest of Europe.
www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Short_scale   (1033 words)

  
 Large Numbers at MROB
I suspect that the text pictured is a copy and that the error was introduced during transcription.
Chuquet's manuscript was discovered by Aristide Marre in the late 1870s and published in 1880
Chuquet left it to others to work out the details of extending the names beyond nonillion.
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 Nicolas Chuquet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nicolas Chuquet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Most of it, however, was copied without attribution by (Click link for more info and facts about Estienne de La Roche) Estienne de La Roche in his 1520 textbook, Larismetique.
In the (The decade from 1870 to 1879) 1870s, scholar A Aristide Marre discovered Chuquet's manuscript and published it in 1880.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/N/Ni/Nicolas_Chuquet.htm   (739 words)

  
 Naming Large Numbers
Nicolas Chuquet (1445-1488) devised a naming system for large numbers that combined a Latin-based numeric prefix with the suffix "-yllion" (later "-illion") to denote an
In the Seventeenth Century, a mutation of the Chuquet naming system evolved in which the Latin-based numeric prefix denoted an integer power of
Modified Chuquet System, in which the suffix "-illiard" is used to denote a number one thousand times greater than the corresponding number with the "-illion" suffix, met with limited success.
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 La_Roche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He learned mathematics from Chuquet and had in his possession many manuscripts in Chuquet's hand so it appears that he was on good terms with Chuquet.
It was immediately discovered that the first part of La Roche's Larismetique is essentially a copy of Chuquet's Algebra.
Indeed La Roche took parts of Chuquet, parts of Pacioli and parts of Philippe Frescobaldi, a French banker who was lesser known as a mathematics writer, and without any real skill on his part formed them into a teaching book.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/La_Roche.html   (280 words)

  
 CHUQUET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"CHUQUET" is a common misspelling or typo for: Cumquat.
Some non-English speaking countries are exceptions to the above rule and match the U.S. usage.
In 1484 the French mathematician Nicolas Chuquet wrote in his article "Triparty en la science de nombres":
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/CHUQUET   (559 words)

  
 THE NAFZIGER COLLECTION
This  is  the first in a series of 12 works written by Arthur Chuquet  on  the early years of the French.
This particular volume is a highly detailed account of the sieges of Longwy and Verdun, and all the events leading up to the battle of Valmy.
This is the second volume in the Chuquet series on the Wars of the French Revolution.
home.fuse.net /nafziger/NAFNAP.HTM   (3801 words)

  
 Earliest Uses of Grouping Symbols   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The first use of the vinculum was in 1484 by Nicolas Chuquet (1445?-1500?) in his Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres.
The bar was placed under the parts affected (Cajori vol.
The earliest example of the modern system of simply separating the numeral into groups of three with commas shown by Cajori is in 1795 in the article "Numeration" in Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary by Charles Hutton.
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 Antique Notations -- from Mathematica Information Center
This notebook explores some of these older notations, including Roman Numerals, Greek Numerals, the Diophantus polynomial form, the François Viète polynomial form, the Harriot polynomial form, the Nicolas Chuquet polynomial form, and the Leibniz function notation.
Stephen Wolfram gave a talk about mathematical notations for MathML International Conference 2000.
Roman Numerals, Greek Numerals, Diophantus polynomial form, François Viète polynomial form, Harriot polynomial form, Nicolas Chuquet polynomial form, and Leibniz function notation.
library.wolfram.com /infocenter/Demos/4952   (108 words)

  
 Selective Blockade of Endothelin-B Receptors Exacerbates Ischemic Brain Damage in the Rat -- Chuquet et al. 33 (12): ...
Selective Blockade of Endothelin-B Receptors Exacerbates Ischemic Brain Damage in the Rat -- Chuquet et al.
Articles by Chuquet, J. Articles by Touzani, O. Articles citing this Article
Correspondence to Julien Chuquet, Université de Caen, CNRS-UMR 6551, Centre Cyceron, Boulevard H. Becquerel, B.P. 5229, 14074 Caen, France.
stroke.ahajournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/33/12/3019   (319 words)

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