In the rhetorical stage of mathematical notation, calculations were described purely using words rather than symbols.
Sources
- Timeline of mathematics (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://www.cut-the-knot.org/language/symb.shtml (cut-the-knot.org)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.11704 (arxiv.org)
- https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers2002/vieta.html (sites.math.rutgers.edu)
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1949-8594.2000.tb17262.x (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- https://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt668/emt668.student.folders/Hix/EMT635/Alg.rhet.timeline.html (jwilson.coe.uga.edu)
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