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Notes Azq: Distance from the tip of the index finger to the first joint (Angua). About one inch. Sinzir: Distance from the tip of the middle finger to the tip of the thumb while hand is fully extended. Depending on the size of the hand, it could be anywhere from six to twelve inches. Kend: Distance from the tip of the elbow to the tip of the ...
The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society (JANES) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal. It was established in 1968 as The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University, and since 1980 it has been housed at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. [1] The most recent issue appeared in 2020. [2]
Babylonian mathematics is a range of numeric and more advanced mathematical practices in the ancient Near East, written in cuneiform script.Study has historically focused on the First Babylonian dynasty old Babylonian period in the early second millennium BC due to the wealth of data available.
Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society: Iowa Archeological Society — — — — Journal of the North Atlantic: Eagle Hill: 2008: 1 — 1935-1933: Kaogu: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: 1934: 12 — 0453-2899: Latin American Antiquity: Society for American Archaeology: 1990 — — 1045-6635 (print) 2325-5080 ...
In mathematics, ancient Egyptian multiplication (also known as Egyptian multiplication, Ethiopian multiplication, Russian multiplication, or peasant multiplication), one of two multiplication methods used by scribes, is a systematic method for multiplying two numbers that does not require the multiplication table, only the ability to multiply and divide by 2, and to add.
The Bakhshali manuscript is an ancient Indian mathematical text written on birch bark that was found in 1881 in the village of Bakhshali, Mardan (near Peshawar in present-day Pakistan, historical Gandhara). It is perhaps "the oldest extant manuscript in Indian mathematics". [4]
The bone has been dated to 42,000 years ago. [12] According to The Universal Book of Mathematics,: p. 184 the Lebombo bone's 29 notches suggest that "it may have been used as a lunar phase counter, in which case African women may have been the first mathematicians, because keeping track of menstrual cycles requires a lunar calendar."
He was mentioned by Bhāskara II (12th century), and made apparent reference to Brahmagupta (7th century). Govindasvāmin (9th century) quoted a passage also found in Pāṭīgaṇita-sāra , and overlapping material is found in the work of Mahāvīra (9th century), from which historians estimate Śrīdhara to have lived in the 8th or early 9th ...