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Rated by Participant: 9CCC5DAD1CF23D5C1993D130B194760AB1161E5D080BFE82E9CDBDF64669FE2C
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There is no evidence of a philosopher named Xian Wáng in that era. Nor that there was an early form of matrix theory related to the five elements. There is however early evidence of something close to matrix used to solve linear equations. Sources: - https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Matrices_and_determinants/ - https://legacy-www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/teaching/math22a2018/exhibits/gaussjordan/SchwarzNineChapters.pdf - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Chapters_on_the_Mathematical_Art - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics)#History
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