ABSTRACT: The Islamic concept of Al-Jahiliyyah (“Days of Ignorance”) refers to the perceived paganism of pre-Islamic Arabia before the revelation of the Quran to Muhammad. During this period of ...

A COMPREHENSIVE work on Babylonian mathematics in English has long been wanted. Apart from a few isolated articles in periodicals, the only material available hitherto was in German. The texts ...

IN the past six years our knowledge of the ancient Babylonian mathematics has been vastly increased, thanks mainly to the labours of Dr. Neugebauer. The impulse to his researches seems to have ...

Keywords: ancient mathematics, nonlinear vibration system, frequency-amplitude relationship, nonlinear differential equation, MEMS Citation: Zhang L (2025) The old Babylonian algorithm: reborn with a ...

This results in a closed interval set [a xn, xn] (or [xn, a xn]). As the number of iterations increases, the length of the interval set becomes shorter. Continuing in sequence will yield the exact ...

Peter Shor revolutionized public-key infrastructure (PKI) using concepts that trace back to 4,000-year-old Babylonian mathematics and culminated in futuristic quantum computing. Here, we explore the ...

Babylonian mathematics was notably advanced for its time. They employed a base-60 number system, a vestige of which persists today in our measurement of time — 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes ...

Babylonian mathematics had a base 60 number system, which we still use today to tell time — 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour.

Babylonian mathematics had a base 60 number system, which we still use today to tell time — 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour. And these ancient people understood the Pythagorean ...

The author contends that this allegedly “Abrahamic” text has never been properly deciphered and authenticated—until now! Deciphering this text reveals an Old Babylonian oral tradition of Base 60 ...