<story><title>Ancient Babylonian Algorithms</title><url>https://fermatslibrary.com/s/ancient-babylonian-algorithms</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>svat</author><text>(1972), reprinted as Chapter 11 of &lt;i&gt;Selected Papers on Computer Science&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cs.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;~knuth&amp;#x2F;cs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cs.stanford.edu&amp;#x2F;~knuth&amp;#x2F;cs.html&lt;/a&gt;) [Changes are usually minor but in this case there&amp;#x27;s an erratum published in 1976, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;doi.org&amp;#x2F;10.1145&amp;#x2F;800127.804066&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;doi.org&amp;#x2F;10.1145&amp;#x2F;800127.804066&lt;/a&gt; p 108.]&lt;p&gt;Fun fact: to write this paper, Knuth actually learned ancient Akkadian and Sumerian (at least enough to look up dictionaries):&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;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.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
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