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Proto-Cuneiform Numerals

In this section we introduce the earliest forms of written numbers ever recorded. During the late Uruk Period (c. 3200BC-3000BC) several independent systems of numbers.[1] We introduce two of these systems by examining the tablet VAT 12593.


  1. Eleanor Robson, Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: a Social History, (2008), 5.

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