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Date of this Version
2017
Keywords
Mathematics -- Early works to 1800, Mathematics, Roots, Numerical -- Early works to 1800, Sumerian language -- Texts, Cuneiform tablets -- Specimens, Cuneiform tablets, Roots, Numerical, Inscriptions, Tables (documents), Tablets, Manuscripts, Digital, Specimens
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Near Eastern Languages and Societies
Recommended Citation
Porter, D. (2017, January 01). Penn Library's LJS 99 - Table of integer square roots (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/218

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Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 99 - Table of integer square roots. Table of numbers whose square roots are integers, in Babylonian sexagesimal notation, on a clay tablet that has been partially baked. A line of text has been lost at the bottom of the obverse, where a chipped area has been smoothed off.
Inscribed in southern Mesopotamia in the 20th or 19th century B.C.
Record in Franklin, with link to digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959649043503681