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Saw Three-Month Workshop Mathematical practices in relation to the astral sciences5th January 2015, 9.30 am-5.30pmUniversity Paris Diderot5 January 2015 : Numbers versus quantities and sexagesimal place value notation versus decimal notationJohn Steele (Brown University, USA) Description, Calculation, Measurement: Different Uses of Numbers and Quantities in Babylonian AstronomyChristine Proust (Sphère, CNRS &#38; University Paris Diderot, SAW Project)Contrasts and correspondences between different kinds of numbers and quantities:  metrological tables from Late Babylonian Nippur and UrukMatthieu Husson (CNRS, SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris &#38; SAW Project)Remarks on mean motion computations and fixed sexagesimal place value notation (short talk)&#160;Bâtiment/Building Condorcet, Room/Salle 483A 4 rue Elsa Morante 75013 Paris or 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet 75013 ParisProgramme and Map