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- Title
Ábacos de América Prehispánica.
- Authors
Micelli, Mónica Lorena; Crespo Crespo, Cecilia Rita
- Abstract
In this paper, we realize a presentation about the existence and characteristics of calculation instruments at pre-Hispanic America. Understanding its ways application, it is possible to identify the way in which these cultures applied techniques and algorithms related to their numeration systems. The vision of the ethnomathematics about the abacuses allows us to have a cultural glance that recognizes the plurality of mathematical constructions through the peculiarities that diverse social groups print on the same.
- Subjects
LATIN America; ABACUS; ETHNOMATHEMATICS; NUMERICAL calculations; ALGORITHMS; NUMBER systems; SOCIAL groups; HISTORY
- Publication
Revista Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática, 2012, Vol 4, Issue 2, p159
- ISSN
2011-5474
- Publication type
Article