The establishing of meaning is modeled as performed within an information-processing mental system which relates multimodal information with information intrinsic to the biological system. The study explores child language-acquisition through categorizing endogenous information into classes of meaning classified by degrees of cognitive complexity. The core hypothesis explored in this work concerns the existence of biologically determined cognitive universals that underlie meaning-representations and language faculty, and which respect principles of optimality. Finally, two fragments contain multiplications Most other fragments belong to tables with reciprocals (Section Power 39 - the longest number attested in ancient Mesopotamia and, probably, inĪll antiquity. Text B it is a 30-digit number equivalent to 9 to the power 11 times 12 to the The initial number is a 25-digit number equivalent to 9 to the power 46 in
Its constituent factors (9 or 12), very likely until 1 is reached. Raised to a high power, or a product of such numbers, is repeatedly divided by Tables a very large sexagesimal number representing a small factor (9 or 12) Unknown class of very large factorization tables that can be adequatelyĭescribed as Babylonian examples of number crunching (Section I). Two remarkable tablets represent a hitherto Present paper, 16 fragments from Babylon, probably belonging to 13 different
Preserved, well-studied Old-Babylonian predecessor (1800-1600 BC). Tablets from Babylon and Uruk, is incompletely known compared to its abundantly Late-Babylonian mathematics (450-100 BC), represented by some 60 cuneiform
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