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- Greek/Coptic Numerals
Surviving entries run from 5 ÷ 12 to 8000 ÷ 48.
There are also Arabic annotations. On p. 1 (fol. 1a), there is a note of several lines in the space where a fourth column of numerals would be expected. […]
Following the ÷ 12 tables is the word al-qīrāṭayn (written defectively, without alif), "the two qīrāṭs," indicating that the column is dividing each number by 12 = two qīrāṭs. […]
Goldstein and Pingree edited the fragment in summary as an appendix to their Geniza horoscopes, since it parallels a division-by-24 table in Coptic numerals in the margins of a manuscript they analyzed, MS Strasbourg 4110. See also Sesiano, 59 no. 2 and 64 n. 6, who identifies the multiplication table with the dhāqāt, the second of two kinds of Coptic multiplication table described in an anonymous Arabic treatise on Coptic reckoning (Istanbul, Feyzullah Ef. 1365).
p. 1 (multiplication by 50 and 60)
(Column 1)
(top lost: 50 × 5, 50 × 50)
1 [𐋮 𐋷] 𐋢̈ ͵𐋥
2 [𐋮] ͵𐋥 𐋫̈ 𐋥̈
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3 𐋮 𐋦 𐋵
4 𐋮 𐋯 ͵𐋣
5 𐋮 𐋸 𐋣̈
…
p. 2 (multiplication by 70, 80, and 90)
(Column 1)
(top lost: 70 × 1, 2, and 3, 12 lines)
1 [70 × 4 = 2]80
2 [70] × 40 = 2,[8]00
3 70 × 400 = 2…
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