Aksharapalli

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Aksharapalli (Akṣarapallī) is a certain type of alphasyllabic numeration scheme extensively used in the pagination of manuscripts produced in India in pre-modern times.[1] The name Aksharapalli can be translated as the letter system.[2] In this system the letters or the syllables of the script in which the manuscript is written are used to denote the numbers.[2] In contrast to the Aksharapalli system, the ordinary decimal system is called the Ankapalli system.[3]

  1. ^ Stephen Chrisomalis (January 2010). Numerical Notation: A Comparative History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 211–213. ISBN 9781139485333.
  2. ^ a b Bibhutibbushan datta and Avadhesh Narayan Singh (1935). History of Hindu Mathematics A Source Book Part I. Asia Publishing House. pp. 72–75.
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