Mathieu Ossendrijver, "The Powers of 9 and Related Mathematical Tables from Babylon", in: Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 66 (2014), 149–165

Abstract

Late-Babylonian mathematics (450-100 BC), represented by some 60 cuneiform tablets from Babylon and Uruk, isincompletely known compared to its abundantly preserved, well-studied Old-Babylonian (OB) predecessor (1800-1600BC). With the present paper, 16 fragments from Babylon, probably belonging to 13 different tablets, are added to thiscorpus. Two remarkable tablets represent a hitherto unknown class of very large factorization tables that can beadequately described as Babylonian examples of number crunching (Section I). Most other fragments belong to tableswith reciprocals (II) and squares (III). Finally, two fragments contain multiplications of one kind or another (IV)…
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