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Floating-point calculation in Mesopotamia

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zbMATH Open1367.01003MaRDI QIDQ2969732FDOQ2969732

Christine Proust

Publication date: 23 March 2017





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zbMATH Keywords

number systemsNippur


Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)



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