Within Babylon, individuals kept information on clay tablets which meant that more of their work survived to be studied. From this, there is much more that is known about their mathematic capabilities, …show more content…
The reason Babylon seems to have possibly more influence is that we can see more of what they were capable of. While the Egyptians were able to do many things that required the use of mathematics, it is unclear how they came about the answers to their problems. As a result, it is hard to determine just how much influence they were capable of having on the future.
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Allen, D. (1997, January 28). Babylonian Mathematics. Retrieved from