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Think Like a Babylonian - With Centimal Base 100 Arithmetic - Sociology and Pure Maths

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This course introduces centimal, or base-100, arithmetic as a way to understand Babylonian sexagesimal computation. It covers digits, conversion to decimal, products, square tables, and aligned addition.

Syllabus

Introduction
Digits
Converting from centimal to decimal
How to evaluate products of digits?
Tables of squares
Addition of centimal numbers requires alignment

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