Small numerical variations in a set of similar problems from Nippur on the area of the square

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2021.07.004MaRDI QIDQ2118258zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charlotte de Varent

Publication date 22 March 2022

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2021.07.004

zbMATH Keywords

metrologyarea of a squareNippurold-Babylonianseries of school exercises

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) History in mathematics education (97A30) Measures and units (educational aspects) (97F70) Area and volume (educational aspects) (97G30)

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