Penn Library's LJS 99 - Table of integer square roots (Video Orientation)
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2017-01-01
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Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 99 - Table of integer square roots. Table of numbers whose square roots are integers, in Babylonian sexagesimal notation, on a clay tablet that has been partially baked. A line of text has been lost at the bottom of the obverse, where a chipped area has been smoothed off. Inscribed in southern Mesopotamia in the 20th or 19th century B.C. Record in Franklin, with link to digital copy: https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9959649043503681