**Sumerian Coefficients at the Bitumen Works and eTCL Slot Calculator Demo Example** This page is under development. Comments are welcome, but please load any comments in the comments section at the bottom of the page. Please include your wiki MONIKER in your comment with the same courtesy that I will give you. Its very hard to reply intelligibly without some background of the correspondent. Thanks,[gold] ---- <> [gold] Here is some eTCL starter code ***Table 1, Garments text from Ur III *** %| garments| | Ur III |% %| quantity | values | units |decimal workdays | units |comment |% &| tug2-sagusbar | 1.7 | kilograms | 0.314 | workdays | |& &| tug2-didila |1.53| kilograms | 0.283 | workdays | |& &| total garments | | | 3.3| workdays | |& ***Table 2, Sumerian coefficients for daily work quota, includes math problems and implied constants from tablets etc *** %|Sumerian coefficients for daily work rate, etc | | | | |% %|daily work of one man etc in base 60 | transliterated name | english |decimal /fraction |reciprocal |comment|% &|12| u4, u4-1-se | hours of workday | 12| 1/12 |12 hours, common to several accounts and math problems |& &| 48 | igigub sig2 hi.a |coefficient wool | 48/60 | 60/48 | possibly daily rate of loom, conv to (48/60)*6, 4.8 meters length |& &| 40 | igigub sig2 hi.a |coefficient wool | 40/60 | 60/40 | possibly daily rate of loom, conv to (40/60)*6, 4.0 meters length of spun wool |& &| 6 | tug2-gurx(SZE.KIN) | poss. daily weaver quota| 6/60| 60/6 | 6 surface sar shekels, 1.8 sq. meters, found on tablet|& &| 10 | siki-bi-se | price of sheep wool | 10/60| 60/10 | one silver shekel buys 10 manas of sheep wool, used in state accounting|& &| 30 | siki-ud-bi-se? | price of goat hair | 30/60| 60/30 | one silver shekel buys 30 to 40 manas of goat hair, used in state accounting|& &| 1/60 | siki-se? | fraction of mana| 1/60| 60/1| 1/60 mana, 9 grams or 0.009 kg, smallest fraction weighing wool, used in craftsmen receipts|& &| 6| u4| 6 days for tug2 lam lugal (princely) | 6| 1/6|6 days for tug2 lam , used in craftsmen receipts|& &| 2+nnn |lamhusu third class | (8+1/2+5/60)/4 mannas, 2.1458| | 1.0678 kg | workdays | |& &| 2 |lamhusu fourth class | 2 mana | 1 kg | | workdays | |& &| 42| tug2usz-bar ge6 42 tug2 per u4 ? | 42 woven items per day| 42| 1/42| 42 small items per day, used in state accounting|& &| 15| tug2guz-za du 15 u4 per tug2 ? | 15 day| 15| 1/15| 15 days per high status tug2-guz-za robe , used in state accounting|& &| 4| tug2ba-tab-duh-hu-um us2 4 u4 per tug2 ? | 4 day per item| 4| 1/4| 4 days per high status tug2-tab-duh robe , used in state accounting|& &| 2| tug2ba-tab-duh-hu-um us2 4 u4 per tug2 ? | 2 day per item| 2| 1/2| 2 days per high status tug2-gazza robe , used in state accounting|& &| 7| 7.5 workdays per kilogram at fuller shop? | 7 days per item| 7| 1/7| 7+30/60 workdays per kilogram of cloth at fullers shop, estimated from tables|& &| 7| 7.5 workdays per kilogram at fuller shop? | 7 days per item| 7| 1/7| 7+30/60 workdays per kilogram of cloth at fullers shop, estimated from tables|& *** Pseudocode and Equations using coefficients *** %| Pseudocode with some Equations | |% &| namespace path {::tcl::mathop ::tcl::mathfunc} ||& &| pseudocode: answer is mandays of labor or silver pieces +- error | |& &| one mana of wool took 4 measures (mannas?) of alkali| |& &| one mana of wool took 5.5 measures (5.5*2*sila?) of oil| |& &| one kilogram of wool took 4 measures (kg?) of alkali| |& &| one kilogram of wool took 5.5 measures (liters?) of oil| |& ---- ***Testcases Section*** In planning any software, it is advisable to gather a number of testcases to check the results of the program. The math for the testcases can be checked by pasting statements in the TCL console. Aside from the TCL calculator display, when one presses the report button on the calculator, one will have console show access to the capacity functions (subroutines). **** Testcase 1 **** **** Testcase 2 **** **** Testcase 3 **** **** Testcase 4 **** **** Testcase 5 **** ***Screenshots Section*** ****figure 1.**** [http://s12.postimg.org/i8z2i34m5/Image257.gif] ---- ***References:*** * Cities of the Ancient World: [https://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/WCITI2.html] * major paper in understandable prose,Equivalency Values and the Command Economy * Robert Englund, UCLA [cdli.ucla.edu/staff/englund/publications/englund2012a.pdf] * Ur III Tablets in the Valdosta State University, search on cdli * Cuneiform Digital Library Journal, search on Equivalency Values * Ur III Equivalency Values[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=ur_iii_equivalency_values] * Especially, the Ur III Equivalency Values for tug2 (garments) and siki (wool) sections. * The Sumerian keywords -bi, esir, and had search on the cdli * are very effective, but major size files to download ---- **Appendix Code** ***appendix TCL programs and scripts *** ====== # pretty print from autoindent and ased editor # Sumerian weaver calculator # written on Windows XP on eTCL # working under TCL version 8.5.6 and eTCL 1.0.1 ====== *** Pushbutton Operation*** ---- For the push buttons, the recommended procedure is push testcase and fill frame, change first three entries etc, push solve, and then push report. Report allows copy and paste from console, but takes away from computer "efficiency". For testcases in a computer session, the eTCL calculator increments a new testcase number internally, eg. TC(1), TC(2) , TC(3) , TC(N). The testcase number is internal to the calculator and will not be printed until the report button is pushed for the current result numbers (which numbers will be cleared on the next solve button.) The command { calculate; reportx } or { calculate ; reportx; clearx } can be added or changed to report automatically, but is not recommended as computer efficiency is impaired. Another wrinkle would be to print out the current text, delimiters, and numbers in a TCL wiki style table as ====== puts " %| testcase $testcase_number | value| units |comment |%" puts " &| volume| $volume| cubic meters |based on length $side1 and width $side2 |&" ====== ---- ---- **Comments Section** <> Please place any comments here, Thanks. <> Numerical Analysis | Toys | Calculator | Mathematics| Example Enter page contents here, upload content using the button above, or click cancel to leave it empty. <>Enter Category Here Sumerian Coefficients at the Weavers Factory and eTCL Slot Calculator Demo Example