Do operation with operand1 on operand2 construction

Part of language Literary Chinese
Meaning of the construction Do operation with operand 1 and operand 2

Construction elements

Examples

Example 1

Text 以高乘之
hasTransliteration yi gao cheng zhi
hasGlosses with height multiply it
hasTranslation Multiply it by the height

Research

Research Question Chinese Mathematics
Findings There is remarkable stability in the use of the construction over a very long period of time

Metadata

Date Created 2024-12-01
Annotator Florian Keßler
References Chemla & Guo Shuchun 郭書春 (2004). Les neuf chapitres: Le classique mathématique de la Chine ancienne et ses commentaires.

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