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Extraction of Cube Roots in Babylonian Mathematics

✍ Scribed by Kazuo Muroi

Book ID
109347004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1988
Tongue
English
Weight
290 KB
Volume
31
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-8994

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