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I'm curious about how people who think that way react when you tell them about Babylonian mathematics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics htt
by semi-extrinsic 9y ago
I'm curious about how people who think that way react when you tell them about Babylonian mathematics;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics
For instance, there is a Babylonian clay tablet from ~1700 BC that gives an approximation of sqrt(2) as 1.414213 (correct to 6 decimal digits).