Floating calculation in Mesopotamia

Autor: Proust, Christine

Publikováno v: Cuneiform Digital Library Preprints , 2016, 2016 (5), pp.2016-5

Sophisticated computation methods were developed 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia in the context of scribal schools. The basics of the computation can be detected in clay tablets written by young students educated in these scribal schools. At first glan

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13607

Tablettes mathématiques de la collection Hilprecht.

Autor: Melville, Duncan J.¹ dmelville@stlawu.edu

Publikováno v: Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science. 2009, Vol. 6, p222-226. 5p.

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Place-Value Notations in the Ur III Period: Marginal Numbers in Administrative Texts

Autor: Ouyang, Xiaoli, Proust, Christine

Publikováno v: Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter ISBN: 9783030983604
Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World
Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World, 6, Springer International Publishing, pp.267-356, 2022, Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-98361-1_5⟩

International audience; The use of sexagesimal place value notation (hereafter SPVN) is one of the most striking features of cuneiform mathematics. The earliest attestations of a systematic use of SPVN in cuneiform sources are found in a small set of

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98361-1_5

Tablettes mathématiques de la collection Hilprecht.

Autor: NEMET-NEJAT, KAREN¹

Publikováno v: Journal of the American Oriental Society. 4/1/2013, Vol. 133 Issue 2, p372-374. 3p.