The Sea Island Mathematical Manual or Haidao suanjing (海岛算经) was written by the Chinese mathematician Liu Hui of the Three Kingdoms era (220–280) as an extension of chapter 9 of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. During the Tang Dynasty, this appendix was taken out from The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art as a separate book, titled Haidao suanjing (Sea Island Mathematical Manual), named after problem No 1 "Looking at a sea island".In early Tang dynasty, the Sea Island Mathematical Manual was selected into one of The Ten Computational Canons as the official mathematical texts for imperial examinations in mathematics.
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