Ancient Babylonian algorithms
- 1 July 1972
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 15 (7) , 671-677
- https://doi.org/10.1145/361454.361514
Abstract
The early origins of mathematics are discussed, emphasizing those aspects which seem to be of greatest interest from the standpoint of computer science. A number of old Babylonian tablets, many of which have never before been translated into English, are quoted.Keywords
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