It also includes reciprocals of some numbers of more than six places, such as 3 (2 1 4 8 3 0 7 in sexagesimal), whose reciprocal has 17 sexagesimal digits. Noting the difficulty of both calculating these numbers and sorting them, Donald Knuth in 1972 hailed Inaqibıt-Anu as "the first man in history to solve a computational problem that takes longer than one second of time on a modern electronic computer!"
This passage describes a computational problem involving large numbers and their reciprocals, highlighting the difficulty of both calculating and sorting them. It also mentions Donald Knuth's recognition of Inaqibıt-Anu as the first person to solve such a computationally demanding problem.