In this paper I present a comparative analysis among the diverse procedures invented respectively by the Babylonian mathe-maticians and Diophantus of Alexandria to solve quadratic equations. We will observe how the first ones appealed to the composition of diagrams while Diophantus applied an abstract algorithm that he was not able to generalize. Keywords: Mesopotamian mathematics, Diophantus of Alexandria, ancient algebra, algorithms, quadratic equations.
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