Ishango bone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ishango bone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ishango bone is a bone tool, dated to the Upper Paleolithic era. It is a dark brown length of bone, the fibula of a baboon, with a sharp piece of quartz affixed to one end, perhaps for engraving.
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an old Mathematical Object - Department of Mathematics
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Among their remains is the second oldest mathematical object (the oldest is here) in Africa. Some say that the Ishango Bone is the oldest table of prime numbers.
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The Ishango Bone, Possibly One of the Oldest Calendars ...
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The Ishango Bone, a notched talley stick discovered at Ishango in the Congo (Zaire) in 1960 by Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt, and now preserved in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences , is one of the oldest known objects that may contain logical or mathematical carvings.
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Aug 29, 2013 - Today, I would like to talk about the Ishango bone, or rather the first evidence of a calculator in the world. Named after the place where it was ...
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The Ishango bone is the oldest known object containing logical carvings. It was discovered in the Congo, and has been dated to be 22000 years old. The middle
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The Prime Glossary: Ishango bone
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Welcome to the Prime Glossary: a collection of definitions, information and facts all related to prime numbers. This pages contains the entry titled 'Ishango bone.
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Mathematical Treasure: Ishango Bone | Mathematical ...
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Perhaps the oldest mathematical artifact in existence, the Ishango Bone (above), was unearthed in 1950 in the then Belgian colony of the Congo (now the ...
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Ishango Bone : nrich.maths.org
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Can you decode the mysterious markings on this ancient bone tool?
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