Re: Sumerian numerals

From: Dušan Vukotić <dusan.vukotic@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:23:55 -0700 (PDT)

On Aug 15, 8:11 pm, hru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin) wrote:

Does anyone know where I can find a good description of
the Sumerian numerals? I do not need the names of the
numerals or numbers, but as the Sumerians used a base
60 representation, I would like to know what each quantity
from 0 to 59 decimal looked in their script.
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Maybe this could also be of some help
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/egypt_babylon/babylon.pdf

DV
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References:
- Sumerian numerals
  - From: Herman Rubin

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