Plimpton 322: a review and a different perspective
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Publication:642097
DOI10.1007/s00407-011-0083-4zbMath1228.01002MaRDI QIDQ642097
Christine Proust, John P. Britton, Steven Shnider
Publication date: 25 October 2011
Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-011-0083-4
01A17: History of Babylonian mathematics
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