The Making of a Scribe Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa /
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| סיכום: | XXII, 487 p. 135 illus. text |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
| יצא לאור: |
Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2020.
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| מהדורה: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| סדרה: | Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter,
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35951-5 |
| פורמט: | אלקטרוני ספר |
תוכן הענינים:
- Chapter 1.Introduction
- Chapter 2. The early scribal education
- Chapter 3. Text types and archival practices in the kingdom of Larsa
- Chapter 4. Archives, bureaus and management systems of the kingdom of Larsa
- Chapter 5. Metrology and sexagesimal place value notation in economic texts
- Chapter 6. Errors, mistakes and evidence for a counting device
- Chapter 7. Observation and the limits of numeracy. Chapter 8. Multiplication and estimation
- Chapter 9. Rounding in mathematical and economic texts
- Chapter 10. Conclusion: On errors, rounding and education in the kingdom of Larsa.