[HN Gopher] Ancient Babylonian Algorithms
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Ancient Babylonian Algorithms
Author : BerislavLopac
Score : 96 points
Date : 2023-10-11 07:58 UTC (1 days ago)
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| czbond wrote:
| Ancient Babylonian Leetcode?
| xylol wrote:
| https://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS1001/extension/an...
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| Link to pdf
| svat wrote:
| (1972), reprinted as Chapter 11 of _Selected Papers on Computer
| Science_ (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/cs.html) [Changes are
| usually minor but in this case there's an erratum published in
| 1976, https://doi.org/10.1145/800127.804066 p 108.]
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| Fun fact: to write this paper, Knuth actually learned ancient
| Akkadian and Sumerian (at least enough to look up dictionaries):
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| > _Most of the Babylonian mathematical tablets have never been
| translated into English. The translations above have been made by
| comparing the German of [3, 4, 5] with the French [8]; but these
| two versions actually differ in many details, so the Akkadian and
| Sumerian vocabularies published in [4, 8, 6] have been consulted
| in an attempt to give an accurate rendition._
| ethanpil wrote:
| I always appreciated "This is the procedure." Great syntax to
| signify the endpoint of the algo... :)
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| Also see: https://www.artsy.net/article/ruse-laboratories-this-
| is-the-...
| jrd259 wrote:
| "This is the way", perhaps?
| diogenes4 wrote:
| Seems more daoist than related to enumerating steps of an
| algorithm.
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