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(1972), reprinted as Chapter 11 of Selected Papers on Computer Science (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/cs.html) [Changes are usually minor but in this case there's an erratum published in 1976, https://doi.org/10.1145/800127.804066 p 108.]

Fun fact: to write this paper, Knuth actually learned ancient Akkadian and Sumerian (at least enough to look up dictionaries):

> Most of the Babylonian mathematical tablets have never been translated into English. The translations above have been made by comparing the German of [3, 4, 5] with the French [8]; but these two versions actually differ in many details, so the Akkadian and Sumerian vocabularies published in [4, 8, 6] have been consulted in an attempt to give an accurate rendition.

https://teaching.csse.uwa.edu.au/units/CITS1001/extension/an...

Link to pdf

I always appreciated "This is the procedure." Great syntax to signify the endpoint of the algo... :)

Also see: https://www.artsy.net/article/ruse-laboratories-this-is-the-...

"This is the way", perhaps?

Seems more daoist than related to enumerating steps of an algorithm.

Be careful with these - there could be a mind virus (nam shub) in there!

(Snow Crash reference)

Ancient Babylonian Leetcode?

Ancient Babylonian Algorithms