Iraq 62, 047 JRL 1052

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The world it comes from

Hammurabi, the Epic of Gilgamesh, mathematics.

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Iraq 62, 047 JRL 1051

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Iraq 62, 048 JRL 1053

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Iraq 62, 046 JRL 1050

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Iraq 62, 047 JRL 1054

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — Iraq 62, 047 JRL 1052. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK (P430864) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P430864..

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Whatever its purpose, this single tablet shows that Babylonian mathematicians, working in base-60, had an arithmetic understanding of right triangles a millennium before Pythagoras was born.