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SIGNS OF ADDITION 693
are 84 and 11 =95, while in the lower—following a small sign-group that may
represent the name of an official, and associated with £ and the 'flock' sign
__are ciphers = 5. Here the total again is 100, but the quota deducted is
only 5 Per cent- ^t tmies '' sin'<s as low as 1 per cent. Occasionally the
total amount is 50 or 200, the decimal character of the reckoning again
and again manifesting itself.
A curious variety of these ' percentage' tablets is illustrated by Fig. 67S,
a b. Here the total of the numbers indicating the round sum is contained
in the first register, a giving 90+ 10 = 100, b 48 + 2 = 50. In these cases,
therefore, the total sum dealt with is contained in the first line, and, in place
of the minor percentage normally supplied in the second register, there
appears, in each case, after what are probably name-groups, an X. It is
clear that this must be interpreted not as the X sign of modern arithmetic, but
as simply o, since nothing was left over.
Signs of Addition.
A good example of addition is supplied on which numbers follow what, Signs of
from its general appearance, has been here described as the 'banner' sign.
In this case the total sum—40—is marked on the edge of the tablet, pre-
ceded by two signs that appear on others as an indication of addition at the
end of lists (Fig. 679). The constant initial sign of the total of amounts
is T. This, however, is often followed by the ' single-edged' axe sign f
or this coupled with V to which Y seems to be closely related.
A striking example of addition sums is afforded by the large tablet,
Fig. 686 below, containing lists of names.
Z
ai O
-1 Z.
a. Z
2S
<°
><<
LU U.
O
r*mh© pi - /
//////© Q=iiu __3,
ON EDQEl TV Q - = Total 40
OF TABLET) I' V" ~
Other Total Signs "tt J^S -r |*i lyt
Fig. 679. Example of Signs of Addition.
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are 84 and 11 =95, while in the lower—following a small sign-group that may
represent the name of an official, and associated with £ and the 'flock' sign
__are ciphers = 5. Here the total again is 100, but the quota deducted is
only 5 Per cent- ^t tmies '' sin'<s as low as 1 per cent. Occasionally the
total amount is 50 or 200, the decimal character of the reckoning again
and again manifesting itself.
A curious variety of these ' percentage' tablets is illustrated by Fig. 67S,
a b. Here the total of the numbers indicating the round sum is contained
in the first register, a giving 90+ 10 = 100, b 48 + 2 = 50. In these cases,
therefore, the total sum dealt with is contained in the first line, and, in place
of the minor percentage normally supplied in the second register, there
appears, in each case, after what are probably name-groups, an X. It is
clear that this must be interpreted not as the X sign of modern arithmetic, but
as simply o, since nothing was left over.
Signs of Addition.
A good example of addition is supplied on which numbers follow what, Signs of
from its general appearance, has been here described as the 'banner' sign.
In this case the total sum—40—is marked on the edge of the tablet, pre-
ceded by two signs that appear on others as an indication of addition at the
end of lists (Fig. 679). The constant initial sign of the total of amounts
is T. This, however, is often followed by the ' single-edged' axe sign f
or this coupled with V to which Y seems to be closely related.
A striking example of addition sums is afforded by the large tablet,
Fig. 686 below, containing lists of names.
Z
ai O
-1 Z.
a. Z
2S
<°
><<
LU U.
O
r*mh© pi - /
//////© Q=iiu __3,
ON EDQEl TV Q - = Total 40
OF TABLET) I' V" ~
Other Total Signs "tt J^S -r |*i lyt
Fig. 679. Example of Signs of Addition.
z z 2