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added by Saskia May 4, 2019, 8:55 p.m.
What is 738 + 565?
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The well known "plus" sign was first used as a symbol of addition by the French mathematician Nicole d'Oresme in the work he wrote in the years 1356-1361. He used the + sign as a conjunction meaning "and".
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added by Saskia May 4, 2019, 8:55 p.m.
What is 738 + 565?
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Probably the first character to mark the addition was used by the French mathematician Nicole d'Oresme in the work he wrote in the years 1356-1361. He used the + sign as a conjunction "and"
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This is a correction, already accepted and applied to the original question.
added by globalquiz.org June 10, 2019, 10:34 p.m.
What is 738 + 565?
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The well known "plus" sign was first used as a symbol of addition by the French mathematician Nicole d'Oresme in the work he wrote in the years 1356-1361. He used the + sign as a conjunction meaning "and".
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