Abstract
BM 46550 is a small Neo-Babylonian clay tablet, published for the first time in Sec. 2.1 below. On the obverse of the tablet is a teacher’s model text, showing that the reciprocal of the 6-place regular sexagesimal number n= 1 01 02 06 33 45 is the 5-place sexagesimal number rec. n = 28 · 126 = 58 58 56 38 24.
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Friberg, J., Al-Rawi, F.N.H. (2016). Direct and Inverse Factorization Algorithms for Many-Place Regular Sexagesimal Numbers. In: New Mathematical Cuneiform Texts. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44597-7_2
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