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Floating calculation in Mesopotamia
Christine Proust
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 writ…
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Early-Dynastic tables from Southern Mesopotamia, or the multiple facets of the quantification of surfaces
Christine Proust
How were surfaces evaluated before the invention of the sexagesimal place value notation in Mesopotamia? This chapter examines a group of five tablets containing tables for surface…