Analysis of the errors in two Old Babylonian "algebraic" problems shows (1) that the computations were performed on a device where additive contributions were no longer identifiable once they had entered the computation; (2) that this device must have been some kind of counting board or abacus wher
A Note on a Very old Specimen of Pepsin
β Scribed by Warren, L.E.
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 1919
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0898-140X
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