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Jones, Phillip S. Recent Discoveries in Babylonian Mathematics. II. The Earliest Known Problem Text. Mathematics Teacher 50 (1957), 442--44.
Continues Jones, Phillip S., Recent Discoveries in Babylonian Mathematics. I.. Discusses a very old Babylonian problem text (c. 2000 BC), that seems to show an understanding of the proportionality of sides in similar right triangles. Continued in Jones, Phillip S., Recent Discoveries in Babylonian Mathematics. III., which has a different character from both of its predecessors. Reprinted in Swetz, Frank J., From Five Fingers to Infinity. Closely related topics: Sumerians and Babylonians and Similarity.