It sounds like somebody back then found a pretty sweet gig. --Barry
> On Mar 29, 2019, at 6:01 PM, Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > > One interesting > point was the clay-tablet records from Mesopotamia where algebraic > solutions of (all?) quadratics and many cubics were enumerated, but > redundantly across different contexts, expressed as "story problems". ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove