How to Construct a Large Table of Babylonian Mathematics

2013/12/31 by Kazuo Muroi, Muroi, Kazuo
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO) #math.HO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1401.0065

arxiv created 2013/12/31 · arxiv updated 2014/01/03

Abstract

In the present paper I shall clarify the Babylonian method by which many large tables of reciprocals could be constructed.

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