Word problems and functions

[willismonroe]

It would be fun to collect word problems that we can use as test cases:

P254956

This text is full of them: https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu//dccmt/P274707/html

But we need to decide on terminology since these are ~1500 years apart!

A.RA₂ is pretty good as "times" x A.RA₂ y
20 A.RÁ 3 TAB.BA 1 IGI.DU₈ (the TAB.BA is not needed I think)
14.30 A.RÁ 14.30 3.30.15

ZI (nasāhu) "tear out" or subtract:
1.40 i-na 28.20 BA.ZI 26.40 IGI.DU₈
1 i-na 1.33.45 BA.ZI 33.45 IGI.DU₈

IGI.DU₈ here is ta-mar: "you will see"

DAḪ.ḪA (waṣābu) "to add":
15 a-na 1 DAḪ.ḪA 1.15 IGI.DU₈

[willismonroe]

This ORACC project has tons of stuff to pour through, but we just have to be mindful of temporal issues: https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dccmt/

[MrLogarithm]

Based on that same text it looks like they phrase division as multiplying by the reciprocal (IGI) of sth. Is 𒅆 the right orthography for IGI?

IGI 7.30 DU₈.A 8 ta-mar

[willismonroe]

Yep, that's correct!

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