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Anyone dividing a number by a number has one of two purposes. Either his purpose is to know what will be attributed to one, namely when he divides one thing by another of a different kind; for example, if he divides ten nummi by five men, his purpose is just to know what will be attributed to one of them. Or his purpose is to know what the ratio of the two numbers is, namely of the dividend to the divisor, when he divides one thing by another of the same kind; for example, if he has to divide twenty sextarii by ten sextarii he just wants to know the ratio of the twenty sextarii to the ten. But the way of proceeding is the same in both cases.
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Sesiano, J. (2014). Chapter (A–IV) on Division. In: The Liber mahameleth . Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03940-4_38
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