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Old square bracket notation for units

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Historical Accounts of Confusion in Alphabetic Number Systems?

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What was Euler's motivation for introducing $i$ for $\sqrt{-1}$?

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What is the earliest use of the $\perp\!\!\!\!\perp$ symbol in statistics to denote statistical independence?

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Who first referred to the number of nonzero entries of a vector as its $\ell_0$ norm?

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Use of blackboard bold "ℝ" to refer to real numbers?

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How did the theory of the Horus-eye fractions originate?

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History behind Serre's conditions $\mathrm{S}_k$ and $\mathrm{R}_k$ for a commutative Noetherian ring

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