Mayan and Babylonian arithmetics can be explained by the need to minimize computations

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Authors Olga Kosheleva

Publication date 4 September 2012

Published in Applied Mathematical Sciences (Ruse) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.m-hikari.com/ams/ams-2012/ams-13-16-2012/index.html

zbMATH Keywords

number systemsoptimal representationsBabylonian arithmeticsMayan arithmetics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of number theory (11-03) Number-theoretic algorithms; complexity (11Y16) History in mathematics education (97A30) History of mathematics of the indigenous cultures of the Americas (01A12) Natural numbers (educational aspects) (97F30)

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