Sunday, November 28, 2010

Masters of Math, From Old Babylon

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
New York Times

If the cost of digging a trench is 9 gin, and the trench has a length of 5 ninda and is one-half ninda deep, and if a worker’s daily load of earth costs 10 gin to move, and his daily wages are 6 se of silver, then how wide is the canal?

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