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  "ar": "الإقليدسي — سيرة ماكتوتر",
  "en": "Al-Uqlidisi — MacTutor biography",
  "ur": "الاقلیدسی — میک ٹیوٹر سوانح"
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  "ar": "سيرة تعرض الكسور العشرية وتكييف الحساب للورق والخلاف بين سعيدان وراشد في اكتمال المفهوم.",
  "en": "Biography on decimal fractions, pen-and-paper adaptations and Saidan's/Rashed's disagreement over conceptual completeness.",
  "ur": "اعشاری کسور، کاغذی حساب اور مفہوم کی تکمیل پر سعیدان و راشد کے اختلاف کی سوانح۔"
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  "type": "article",
  "title": "Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi",
  "author": [
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    "family": "O'Connor",
    "given": "J. J."
   },
   {
    "family": "Robertson",
    "given": "E. F."
   }
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  "publisher": "MacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews",
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     1999,
     11
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  "URL": "https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Uqlidisi/",
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  },
  "provenance": {
   "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
   "model": "unknown",
   "run": "inventions-p3-b26",
   "source": "Actual complete authored biography and references; not search synthesis"
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