Ancient Babylonian algorithms

DOI10.1145/361454.361514zbMATH Open0245.68010OpenAlexW2056936467WikidataQ30051633 ScholiaQ30051633MaRDI QIDQ5657654FDOQ5657654

Donald E. Knuth

Publication date: 1972

Published in: Communications of the ACM (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/361454.361514

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of computer science (68-03) Algorithms in computer science (68W99) History of mathematics of the indigenous cultures of Europe (pre-Greek, etc.) (01A15)

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• The Oldest Trig in the Book
• All roads come from China -- for a theoretical approach to the history of mathematics
• Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world: an introduction
• About informatics, distributed computing, and our job: a personal view
• Egyptian Mathematical Texts and Their Contexts
• A personal account of Turing's imprint on the development of computer science
• Book review of: J.-L. Chabert et al., Histoire d'algorithmes. Du caillou à la puce
• Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry
• Extrapolating Plimpton 322
• Neither Sherlock Holmes nor Babylon: A reassessment of Plimpton 322

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