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- Title
BM 46550 - a Late Babylonian Mathematical Tablet with Computations of Reciprocal Numbers.
- Authors
Fincke, Jeanette C.; Ossendrijver, Mathieu
- Abstract
The mathematical tablet BM 46550 offers the first evidence that a method for computing and verifying reciprocal numbers, thus far attested only in the Old Babylonian era, continued to be applied, in a similar manner, in the Neo- or Late Babylonian era. At least part of the tablet was computed on the spot, some of the columns being written from bottom to top. The mathematical tables are accompanied by an unusual drawing, apparently unrelated to the text.
- Subjects
RECIPROCALS (Mathematics); AMORITES; DRAWING
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie & Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 2016, Vol 106, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
0084-5299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/za-2016-0016