Toshitaka OHKAWA, Shigehiko OKAYAMA, Hiroshi KOTERA, Tuneko SUMIYA, Saburo TAMURA, Makoto TAMURA, Toshio HARIKAE, Biao Ma, Masayuki YOSHIMURA
Journal of Osaka Sangyo University, Humanities, 115(115) 1-13, Feb, 2005 Peer-reviewed
The unearthed book "Suanshu-shu (算数書)" is the oldest book of mathematics in China. In order to report this book's proper collation, translation, and annotation, the very first procedure was to decipher the letters from photographs with the following investigation of the results with the mathematical and historical viewpoints. This is the sixth released article based on our research and results in which we studied 9 sections named "Zengjianfen (増減分)", "Fendangbanzhe (分当半者)", "Fenbanzhe (分半者)", Chuanma(伝馬)", "Yushi (羽矢)", "Zengfu (繪幅)", "Qiqian (漆銭)", "Yinqi (飲漆)", and "Chengzhu (程竹)".