A note on Old Babylonian computational techniques

DOI10.1006/HMAT.2002.2343MaRDI QIDQ1604666zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jens Høyrup

Publication date 8 July 2002

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/02a2ae041e030ca024d8937f312cf9a07fad3273

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

Review text

Mit Hilfe der Analyse von Rechenfehlern in altbabylonischen mathematischen Texten erhält der Verf. Hinweise darauf, wie damals Nebenrechnungen ausgeführt wurden, und kommt zu dem Schluß, dass vermutlich eine Art Rechenbrett mit Rechensteinen benutzt wurde.

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