The following report will be based on the ancient Babylonian Numeration System. It has a great deal of mathematics involved and continually relates to modern everyday life experiences. The history behind this number system goes way back to the ancient times when it first originated in 1800 BC. (Babylonian Numbers, n.d)
Babylonian mathematics developed from Mesopotamia, the country between the Euphrates and Tigris, known as Iraq today. In the late nineteenth century archaeologists began digging in the ancient city of Mesopotamia, and thousands of clay tablets were discovered in evidence of ancient civilizations. There was some recognition of the relation ...