Quantifying and calculating: usage of numbers in Nippur

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Authors Christine Proust

Publication date 27 July 2009

Full work available at URL http://smf4.emath.fr/en/Publications/RevueHistoireMath/14/html/smf_rhm_14_143-209.html

zbMATH Keywords

brick calculationcuneiform writingcurriculum of scribal schoolMesopotamiametrological tablemetrologysexagesimal place value notationsurface metrologyvolume metrology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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