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Guessing an algorithm beyond numbers displayed on a clay tablet: a sample for Old Babylonian period

Christine Proust

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In this paper, I discussed CBS 1215, a mathematical cuneiform text which seems, at first sight, to reflect an almost entirely tacit knowledge, as it doesn’t contain a single word, but only the graphemes for 1 and 10. In the same time, as this text was first understood and interpreted by Abraham Sachs (1947), I also discussed this latter paper. I examined both the tablet CBS 1215 and Sachs’ paper in order to show: - How a lot of information may be conveyed by other means than words. - How modern interpretations of such a text may inform us more about the tacit knowledge of the modern observers than about the ancient methods.
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hal-01516188 , version 1 (28-04-2017)

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Christine Proust. Guessing an algorithm beyond numbers displayed on a clay tablet: a sample for Old Babylonian period. Tom Archibald; Jeanne Peiffer; Norbert Shappacher. Explicit Versus Tacit Knowledge in Mathematics, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, pp.20-23, 2014. ⟨hal-01516188⟩
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