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Linear interpolation and a clay tablet of the old Babylonian period.
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In a brief historical note we look for the earliest occurrence of interpolation that the literature can provide. The search leads us to a problem of compound interest on a clay tablet from the Old Babylonian period (c. 2000-1700 BC), and to commentaries on it by Neugebauer in [5] and [6], and by Thureau-Dangin in [7] and [8]. The scribe who wrote this tablet does not give an explicit account of his method; nevertheless, after discovering and correcting an error by the scribe, the analyses of Neugebauer and Thur...See the full content of this document
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