The content involves fractions, square roots, series, revenue and expenditure and profit calculation, proportional algorithm, sum of series, algebraic equations (quadratic equations and equations), in which some mathematical symbols are used, complete decimals are used, and real numbers are used to represent 0.

In 188 1 year, the ancient Indian mathematical work "Bakshali Manuscript" was unearthed in Bakshali village near Peshawar, Pakistan. This is the remnant of a mathematical work written with birch bark. It was formed in the 4th-5th century.

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The vacancy "zero" ("0") indicated by dots only appears in this manuscript. In this manuscript, the Brahma prefix of Brahma mysterious font is used to represent decimal number notation. Since then, this notation has been widely used in ancient Indian literature.

In Bakshali's manuscript, the expression of fraction is: the numerator is recorded above the denominator without semicolon; Band fraction is an integer part, above the molecule. There are also solutions to linear equations in this draft.