The sexagesimal place-value notation and abstract numbers in mathematical cuneiform texts

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2021.12.001zbMath1497.01003OpenAlexW4225981413MaRDI QIDQ2145714

Christine Proust

Publication date: 17 June 2022

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2021.12.001

zbMATH Keywords

multiplicationabstract numbersconcrete numbersfloating notationmathematical cuneiform textssexagesimal place-value notation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Historiography (01A85) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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