Number notation and calculation practices in Mesopotamia

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Authors Grégory Chambon

Publication date 28 February 2013

Full work available at URL http://smf4.emath.fr/en/Publications/RevueHistoireMath/18/html/smf_rhm_18_5-36.php

zbMATH Keywords

accountingcentesimal place-value systemcuneiform writingMesopotamianumber systemscribal practices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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