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 "label": {
  "ar": "الإقليدسي — ترجمة أحمد سليم سعيدان",
  "en": "Al-Uqlidisi — A. S. Saidan's DSB biography",
  "ur": "الاقلیدسی — احمد سلیم سعیدان کی ڈی ایس بی سوانح"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "دراسة صاحب التحقيق في بنية الكتاب والحساب والكسور؛ النسخة المتاحة إعادة نشر إلكترونية تفتقد بعض الصيغ.",
  "en": "The editor-historian's account of the book, arithmetic and decimals; the available electronic reproduction omits some formulae.",
  "ur": "محقق مؤرخ کا کتاب، حساب اور اعشاریات کا بیان؛ دستیاب برقی نقل میں بعض صیغے غائب ہیں۔"
 },
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 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
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  "type": "article",
  "title": "Al-Uqlidisi, Abu'l-Hasan Ahmad Ibn Ibrahim",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Saidan",
    "given": "A. S."
   }
  ],
  "publisher": "Dictionary of Scientific Biography; Encyclopedia.com reproduction preserved by MacTutor",
  "language": "en",
  "URL": "https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/DSB/Al-Uqlidisi.pdf",
  "open_access": true,
  "reliability_note": "Actual linked two-page PDF read to its A. S. Saidan byline, including four parts, decimal sign, repeated halving and transmission qualifications. This is a print of Encyclopedia.com, not a scan of original DSB pages544–546; no original printed page anchors or publication year inferred. Rendering its second page confirms that numerical arrays/root formulae are actually absent, not merely lost during extraction. Do not invent their contents. Claims of cube-root or other absolute priority are expressly unresolved. Modern computed teaching sequences are labelled, not claimed as transcriptions. PDF text has OCR/encoding errors.",
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
   "model": "unknown",
   "run": "inventions-p3-b26",
   "source": "Actual linked DSB reproduction read and second page visually checked; author verified; missing mathematical figures not successfully read"
  }
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 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-05",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}