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Several offhand references were made in the preceding chapters to “riddles”, to “practitioners”, and to "lay surveyors".
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Høyrup, J. (2002). The Origin and Transformations of Old Babylonian Algebra. In: Lengths, Widths, Surfaces. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3685-4_10
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