Direct and Inverse Factorization Algorithms for Many-Place Regular Sexagesimal Numbers
Book chapter, 2016
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.
Left Column
Initial Number
Factorization Algorithm
Middle Column
Preceding Place
Author
Jöran Friberg
Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences
Farouk N.H. Al-Rawi
University of London
Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
21968810 (ISSN) 21968829 (eISSN)
61-86Subject Categories
Mathematics
Pedagogical Work
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-44597-7_2