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A generalization of the Vernier algorithm. (English) Zbl 1256.11075

Summary: After a short description of the Vernier algorithm and brief biographies of the two scientists connected with it, Pierre Vernier (1580–1637) and Pedro Nunes (lat.: Nonius) (1502–1578), we present an algorithm which generalizes the Vernier algorithm and has a number of new and surprising properties not possessed by the Vernier algorithm.

MSC:

11Y16 Number-theoretic algorithms; complexity
01A40 History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance

Biographic References:

Vernier, Pierre; Nunes, Pedro
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