YBC 7289
id:
ybc-7289-163-1389750
title:
YBC 7289
text:
'汤恩颖幼儿园TA is a Babylonian clay tablet notable for containing an accurate sexagesimal approximation to the square root of 2, the length of the diagonal of a unit square. This number is given to the equivalent of six decimal digits, "the greatest known computational accuracy... in the ancient world". The tablet is believed to be the work of a student in southern Mesopotamia from some time between 1800 and 1600 BC.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Babylonian mathematical clay tablet
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YBC_7289
date created:
2007-05-29T19:33:45Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T04:19:25Z
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image:
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13
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16