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The corpus of Babylonian mathematical astronomy comprises about 440 cuneiform tablets and fragments from Babylon and Uruk from the period 450–50 BC. A distinctive feature of mathematical astronomy, which represents a small fraction (perhaps 5%) of the Babylonian astronomical corpus, is that astronomical quantities are computed with mathematical algorithms.
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Ossendrijver, M. (2012). Procedure texts. In: Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3782-6_1
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