Abstract
It seems best to begin with a characteristic old-Babylonian cuneiform text, instead of indulging in extended preliminary considerations. For indeed, the only things we know about what went on in the minds of our mathematical colleagues of Hammurabi’s day, are the things we can dig out of the texts themselves.
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Neugebauer, MKT (Mathematische Keilschrifttexte) I, p. 113.
E. M. Brums, Nouvelles décounrtes sur Us mathématiques babyloniemes, Confcrcnccs, Palais dc Découverte, Univ. Uc Paris. Scric D, no. 11 (1951).
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Van Der Waerden, B.L. (1975). Babylonian Mathematics. In: Science Awakening I. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1379-0_3
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