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What are the values of the Linear A fraction signs?

Asked 26 Oct 2026 by ·Part of Do the Linear B sound values apply to the Linear A signs that share their shapes?·3 answers·0·0 following
Most likely: the fraction signs have the values proposed by Corazza and colleagues in 2021, a consistent set that makes…Ahead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

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Three answers have been proposed. The fraction signs have the values proposed by Corazza and colleagues in 2021, a consistent set that makes… leads, with evidence 1 for: partly supported by its tests. Two are still possible.

Why it matters

The accounts cannot be checked, and the metrological system cannot be reconstructed, unless the fraction signs are valued. This is a bounded problem with an internal check: the totals must add up⁠[1].

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  1. Corazza et al. puts forward: the fraction signs have the values proposed by Corazza and colleagues in 2021, a consistent set that makes…
  2. Corazza et al. puts forward: some fraction signs have other values and the 2021 set is only partly right.
  3. Corazza et al.: the 2021 study tested value assignments against the tablet totals and found a consistent set, resolving…For: The fraction signs have the values proposed by Corazza and colleagues in 2021, a consistent set that makes…
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