The earliest multiplication formulas on record have been discovered on bamboo slips from the Warring States period (475BC-221BC) at a tomb site in Central China's Hubei Province, pushing the history ...

From a few fragments out of a collection of 23-century-old bamboo strips, historians have pieced together what they say is the world's oldest example of a multiplication table in base 10. Five years ...

"The inscription is about 100 years older than another piece of the same kind which was uncovered earlier during excavation efforts in the central province of Hunan," excavation chief Yang Kaiyong ...

KASHIHARA, Nara Prefecture—The strip of wood unearthed here may seem like nothing special to the casual observer, but it turns out the fragment is part of a multiplication table about 1,300 years old.