number

Thirty-six

Numbers & forms

A round thirty-six in Chinese earthly-branch and later Jewish “righteous” talk, among other local uses. The uses do not share one thirty-sixth doctrine.

Also known as 36

Mesopotamian tradition

  • Thirty-six appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

    MUL.APIN and Mesopotamian list arithmetic seat thirty-six among star and measure groupings. A named thirty-six in that compendium, not three-hundred-sixty and not a modern lottery dump.

    from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • MUL.APIN · Hermann Hunger and David Pingree

    Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, MUL.APIN.