Babylonian Table of Squares

By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide

From what you've read above about the soss -- which you'll remember is the Babylonian for 60 years, the wedge and the arrowhead -- which are descriptive names for cuneiform marks, see if you can figure out how these computations work. One side of the dash-like mark is the number and the other is the square. Try it as a group. If you can't figure it out, look at the next step.

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• Babylonian Numbers
• The Numbers of Babylonian Mathematics
• 1 Row, 2 Rows, and 3 Rows
• The Table of Squares
• How to Decode the Table of Squares

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