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Honor to whom honor is due. In the first part of the series "From Persian to Arabic" (AJSL, LVI [April, 1939], 196; reprint, p. 22) the writer presented a solution, which he had found independently, of the curious Persian fractions recorded in Bilddhuri's tale of the conversion of the tax records in early Islamic times from Persian to Arabic. The writer at that time knew, though he did not mention, De Goeje's second unsuccessful attempt at a solution of the problems published in the notes to Fliigel's edition of the Fihrist. The writer did not then know of De Goeje's third attempt, really Olshausen's solution with small but important additions from Arabic orthography by De Goeje. Recently in looking over once more Houtum-Schindler's valuable article on the language and customs of the Parsees in Persia in ZDMG, Volume XXXVI (1882), he found in the same volume (pp. 339-41) De Goeje's Die persischen Bruchzahlen bei Belddhori. The reading, bist, "twenty," instead of sas, "six," is there clearly recognized, though neither Olshausen nor De Goeje gives evidence of having noted the essential difficulty of expressing fractions smaller than tenths in Arabic. Olshausen's solution of elements
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- Author
- M. Sprengling
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1940
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)