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A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical TextsOld Babylonian Arithmetical Table Texts

A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: Old Babylonian Arithmetical Table Texts Old Babylonian clay tablets inscribed with arithmetical or metrological table texts are typically much taller than wide, often rectangular with the sides more or less in the ratio 3 : 2. 2.1. Old Babylonian Tables of Squares 2.1 a. Standard Tables of Squares (Cf. Neugebauer, MKT 1 (1935), 69-70, 74, 85; Neugebauer and Sachs MCT (1945), 33.) A complete “unabridged” Old Babylonian table of squares contains entries for the squares of all integers from 1 to 59 and 1 (00). For examples, see MKT 1 § 4b: 5-13. The entries in all lines (except possibly the first line of the table) are normally of one of the following two types, type a: n a.rá n sq. n type b: n n sq. n (This is a simplification of the set of types of Old Babylonian tables of squares that was proposed by Neuge- bauer in MKT 1, 74.) A complete unabridged table of squares with entries of type a looks like this: 1 a.rá 1 1 31 a.rá 31 16 01 2 a.rá 2 4 32 a.rá 32 17 04 3 a.rá 3 9 33 a.rá 33 18 09 4 a.rá 4 16 34 a.rá 34 19 16 5 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical TextsOld Babylonian Arithmetical Table Texts

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Springer New York
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© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007
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978-0-387-34543-7
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45 –99
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10.1007/978-0-387-48977-3_2
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Abstract

Old Babylonian clay tablets inscribed with arithmetical or metrological table texts are typically much taller than wide, often rectangular with the sides more or less in the ratio 3 : 2. 2.1. Old Babylonian Tables of Squares 2.1 a. Standard Tables of Squares (Cf. Neugebauer, MKT 1 (1935), 69-70, 74, 85; Neugebauer and Sachs MCT (1945), 33.) A complete “unabridged” Old Babylonian table of squares contains entries for the squares of all integers from 1 to 59 and 1 (00). For examples, see MKT 1 § 4b: 5-13. The entries in all lines (except possibly the first line of the table) are normally of one of the following two types, type a: n a.rá n sq. n type b: n n sq. n (This is a simplification of the set of types of Old Babylonian tables of squares that was proposed by Neuge- bauer in MKT 1, 74.) A complete unabridged table of squares with entries of type a looks like this: 1 a.rá 1 1 31 a.rá 31 16 01 2 a.rá 2 4 32 a.rá 32 17 04 3 a.rá 3 9 33 a.rá 33 18 09 4 a.rá 4 16 34 a.rá 34 19 16 5

Published: Jan 1, 2007

Keywords: Multiplication Table; Standard Table; Table Text; Clay Tablet; Cube Side

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