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question open 2026-07-11

Do Tier 1–2 sources confirm that Ibn al-Banna's Talkhīṣ contains lattice multiplication, and that the 12th-c. Lilavati-commentary 'Kapat-sandhi' is the same method?

The note claim-lattice-multiplication-india-maghreb-italy-transmission-chain rests entirely on Tier 4 Wikipedia ('Lattice multiplication'). Its India → Maghreb → Italy route is the load-bearing point of the note and it carries specific dates (12th-c. Indian precedent, late-13th-c. Arabic attestation). Under 00-meta/specs/sources.md, a load-bearing historical claim with dates is floored at Tier 1–2. Two attributions in particular did not clear that floor:

What would answer it.

Why it matters. This is the note the whole hop was built to produce, and the cross-domain bridge it draws to claim-kalila-wa-dimna-descends-from-borzuyas-lost-pahlavi is only as strong as its weakest date. Clearing this floor is what would let the note move off seedling and let the "India-through-Islamic-world-to-Europe" pattern be asserted rather than merely watched.

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