Titlebook: Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World; Numbers, Measurement Karine Chemla,Agathe Keller,Christine Proust Book 202

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2662-9933 ematics to the history of ancient worlds.Sheds a new light oThis book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrates on cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world, mainly in ancient China, South Asia, and the Ancient Near East and offer

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Labour—Management Relations and Incentivesedures were displayed on a working surface, etc. We attempt to evaluate the ways?in which resources of decimal place-value notationwere used. The current historiography of elementary operationsinSanskrit sources is also revised along the way.

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Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World: An Introduction,usted. One of the main reasons for revisiting these topics is the problematic division of the historiography of number into two branches: on the one hand, the history of the concept of number and, on the other, the history of numerical signs designed to express integers and the history of computatio

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Carrying Bricks and Bundling Reed in Theory and Practice, plowing, harrowing, weeding, harvesting, threshing; transport—carrying, towing boats; irrigation—digging, dredging, installing fascines; manufacture; construction. For every task there was a norm governing how much a male or female laborer had to accomplish to earn the wage of one day’s labor. Lab

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Measuring Grain in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia: Form, Use, and Control of the , Container in the Twstribution to consumers all required careful measuring of large quantities of grain. The enormous textual record from the time of the Third Dynasty of Ur (twenty-first century BCE) attests to the all-encompassing use of capacity measures. Up to now, however, it has remained unknown how grain was mea

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Volume, Brickage and Capacity in Old Babylonian Mathematical Texts from Southern Mesopotamiats, the metrology adopted by scribes depended on the nature of the things being quantified. In mathematical texts too, one finds different ways of quantifying tri-dimensional entities, but these different approaches to spatial extension are not completely independent from each other as they are in a

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Place-Value Notations in the Ur III Period: Marginal Numbers in Administrative Textsof a systematic use of SPVN in cuneiform sources are found in a small set of mathematical texts dated to the Ur III period (ca. 2112 to 2004 BCE). Besides this mathematical corpus, traces of numbers written in positional notations have been found in some Ur III administrative texts. Just a few dozen

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Computing Tools and?Representations of?Arithmeticchapter takes some traditional uses of the Chinese abacus?as an example. First, numbers can be described as structured data; then, operations can be subjected to what computer scientists call ‘currying’; finally, arithmetical properties such as associativity?and commutativity, which can be considere

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Working on and with Division in Early China, Third Century BCE—Seventh Century CEds: third- and second-century manuscripts and classics, completed from the first century CE onwards. Chemla argues that the manuscripts and part of the earliest classic (. [.]) share a way of prescribing division with the term . 除, which, when used alone in these documents, means subtraction, or rep