Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Guitel

Geneviève Guitel was a female French mathematician. She is mostly remembered for the introduction of the terms échelle longue and échelle courte (long scale and short scale) to refer to two of the main numbering systems used around the world.

See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%C3%A8ve_Guitel

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