Analysis Of The Multiplication Table At The Eastern Han Dynasty

Archaeologists claimed that they had found a multiplication table at the Gurendi cultural relics of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) in Zhangjiajie, Central China's Human Province. The table was discovered on a 22 cm-long wooden strip which was broken when it was discovered and the handwriting on it is quite illegible. "We can see that the multiplication table begins at nine times nine equals 81, in a sequence that is the inverted opposite of modern tables, which start at one times one is one," said Zhang Chunlong, a research member with Hunan Archaeological Research Institute.
This is the second time Zhang has come across traditional Chinese multiplication tables inscribed on wooden strips. The others were found on a wooden strip of the Qin